[Additional Content] Guide to the West

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TOWN OF SABBATH

Located in Southern Arizona.

Population: 172

Look at this town. Nice quiet town. Nice town to live in. They got no rail head, no digging up in the hills, no reason to grow fat. This town eats because Vincent Bronson puts their bread on the table. He owns the town. He owns the county. People around here owe him. – Sheriff “Cotton” Ryan

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SABBATH - TOWNSFOLK

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THE BRONSON CLAN

We´ve got 10,000 head of good cows, a valley of sweet grass, and money in the bank. That didn't come easy. We put 30 years of sweat into it. I don't want to drop it on some dumb gunplay- Vincent Bronson

Vincent Bronson is a wealthy cattle baron and the most powerful man in Sabbath. His family settled in the area over thirty years ago, when the territory was still occupied by the Comanche Indians.

Persons of note in the "Bronson clan":

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Rules for Bronson Ranch & brand

* No employee of the brand, or of any contractor doing work for the brand, is permitted to carry on or about his person any pistol, dirk, dagger, sling shot, knuckles, bowie knife or any other similar instruments for offense or defense when inside the ranch without permission.

* Card playing and gambling of every description, whether engaged in by employees, or by persons not in the service of the Bronson brand is strictly forbidden at work.

* Employees are strictly forbidden the use of vinous, malt, spirituous, or intoxicating liquors, during their time of service.

* Loafers, “sweaters”, deadbeats, tramps, gamblers, or disreputable persons, must not be entertained at any camp, nor will employees be permitted to give, loan or sell such persons any grain, or provisions of any kind, nor shall such persons be permitted to remain on the Bronson´s land under any pretext whatsoever.

* Employees are not allowed to run mustang, antelope or any kind of game on the Bronson’s horses.

* No employee shall be permitted to own any cattle or stock horses on the ranch.

* It is the aim of the owners of this ranch to conduct it on the principle of right and justice to everyone; and for it to be excelled, and to this end it is necessary that the forgoing rules be adhered to, and the violation of any of them will be the just charge for discharge.

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In many places, a cowboy earns about 50 cents per day, and sometimes gets his "found" (food and shelter). Bronson pays good wages, normally $1 per day for the cowboys, plus food, shelter and even clothes. Also, the cowboys that stayed in bunk house could purchase goods "on tick" (credit) against future wages.

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The events depicted take place in the 1880s in Delaware, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. As much as possible, historical accuracy has been maintained. The timeline for major events of the period is also respected. Most characters are fictional, but there are a few historical characters that appear in the story.

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TIMELINE

1861-1865	American Civil War
Oct 24, 1861	First transcontinental telegraph line completed.
May 20, 1862	Homestead Act was approved; this granted free family farms to settlers
May 10, 1869	Union Pacific and Central Pacific rails meet in Promontory Utah
1875	Deadwood, one of the wildest towns in the West, springs into existence when Black Hills miners find gold on Deadwood Creek. Within a year, the legendary gunfighter 'Wild Bill' Hickock is murdered here while holding Aces and Eights -- the Dead Man's Hand -- in a game of poker.
1876	General Philip Sheridan orders General George Crook, General Alfred Terry and Colonel John Gibbon to drive Sitting Bull and the other chiefs onto the reservation through a combined assault. On June 17, Crazy Horse and 500 warriors surprise General Crook's troops on the Rosebud River, forcing them to retreat. On June 25, George Armstrong Custer, part of General Terry's force, discovers Sitting Bull's encampment on the Little Bighorn River. Custer discovers that he is outnumbered four-to-one. Hundreds of Lakota warriors overwhelm his troops, killing them to the last man, in a battle later called Custer's Last Stand. News of the massacre shocks the nation, and Sheridan floods the region with troops who methodically hunt down the Lakota. Sitting Bull eludes capture by leading his band to safety in Canada.
1877	Congress passes the Desert Land Act, which permits settlers to purchase up to 640 acres of public land at 25¢ per acre in areas where the arid climate requires large-scale farming, provided they irrigate the land.
1880	Backed by the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, Kansas Governor John St. John forces through prohibition legislation, making Kansas -- the site of towns like Dodge City -- the first state in the nation to 'go dry.'
Jul 14, 1881	Legendary outlaw Billy the Kid, charged with more than 21 murders in a brief lifetime of crime, is finally brought to justice by Sheriff Pat Garrett, who trails The Kid for more than six months before killing him with a single shot at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Aug, 1881	Late summer brings the last big cattle drive to Dodge City. With livestock plentiful on the plains, the long trek up the Western Trail is no longer as profitable as before. The increasing use of barbed wire to enclose farms and grazing land has ended the era of the open range. In the fifteen years since Texas cowboys first hit the trail, as many as two million longhorns have been driven to market in Dodge.
Oct 26, 1881	Tombstone, Arizona, Deputy Marshall Wyatt Earp and his brothers gun down the Clantons in a showdown at the O.K. Corral.
Apr 3, 1882	Jesse James, the notorious outlaw who was a veteran of Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War, is shot in the back by Robert Ford who hoped to collect a $5,000 reward. James' death ends the career of an outlaw gang that terrorized the West for more than a decade.
Jul 13, 1882	Death of Johny Ringo
Nov 14, 1882	Franklin Leslie kills Billy Claiborne in Tombstone
1883	'Buffalo Bill' Cody stages his first Wild West Show at the Omaha fairgrounds, featuring a herd of buffalo and a troupe of cowboys, Indians and vaqueros who re-enact a cattle round-up, a stagecoach hold-up and other scenes.
1883	Buffalo hunters gather on the northern Plains for the last large buffalo kill, among them a Harvard-educated New York assemblyman named Theodore Roosevelt, who hopes to bag a trophy before the species disappears. Hunters have already destroyed the southern herd, and by 1884, except for small domestic herds kept by sentimental ranchers, there are only scattered remnants of the animal that more than any other symbolizes the American West.
spring, 1883	General Crook was put in charge of Arizona and New Mexico reservations (Apache)
1885	Franklin Leslie served as a scout for the Fourth Cavalry during the Apache uprisings
May 1, 1886	Attack on the Lee clan hideout in Delaware
Summer 1886	Tom Lee and Ed Stein captured, and later acquitted
Sep 7, 1886	Jim and Pink Lee gunned down
Oct 30, 1886	Shootout in the Cantina
Feb 8, 1887	Cattle Thieves attack (Sabbath)
Mar 27, 1887	Geronimo meets General Crook
Apr-May, 1887	Cattle Drives from Sabbath to Fort Worth

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(All dates and events are historically correct).

The events of the fictional story will be included in italic.

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NEWSPAPERS

Special Dispatch of the Globe-Democrat, the Cherokee Advocate, Fort Smith, Arkansas, September 11, 1885

A Nice Gang Of Assassins - September 11, 1885

Five prisoners of considerable notoriety arrived here today, three of them being Tom Lee, Ed Stein and Davidson, members of the notorious Lee gang, who a few months since murdered Indian Policeman J. H. Guy, Andy and Jim Roff, in Delaware Bend, Chickasaw Nation.

These three were arrested shortly after the murders occurred but Jim and Pink Lee for whom there is a reward of $5,000 are still at large. The other two are Jim and Jake Tobler, the two Negroes who murdered Frank Cass and Goodykooniz. These latter two were brought in by Deputy Marshal W. F. Jones, and on the way down they gave the officer a full account of the horrible deed.

Tom Lee and Ed Stein were tracked down in Denison, Texas where they surrendered and were sent to Ft. Smith, Arkansas for trial.

State Capital Reporter, Nov 5th 1886

State Capital Reporter, Nov 15th, 1885

Sabbath Herald, Feb 10th, 1886

Sabbath Herald, Mar 3rd, 1886

Bronson Cattle Drive!

The most important cattle owner in the county, Mr. Vincent Bronson, has confirmed the Sabbath Herald he will summon another two cattle drives to Fort Worth. Any cowboys interested can apply at Harris´ Shop.

On a separate note, foreman Harvey Stenbaugh is getting back to work after many weeks of intense recovery from injuries suffered in a recent shooting incident. However, he will not be able to lead the trail this time around.

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