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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 2685799" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Prelude – “Cheyenne” – March 6th to May 25th, 1882 </strong> </p><p></p><p><em>[GM’s note: This prelude chronicles the one prior game played using these same characters, played on June 6, 2005 with a different group of players.]</em></p><p></p><p>Cheyenne, Wyoming is located in the southeast corner of the Wyoming Territory not far from the borders of the States of Colorado and Nebraska. The community was inhabited by the Cheyenne Indian tribe, who themselves get their name from the Sioux phrase “sha hi ye na” which translates as “speaker of strange language”. </p><p></p><p>The community itself was only fifteen years old, having begun as a tent city in 1867 that General Granville Dodge set up for the workers on the Union Pacific railroad. A rail yard and railroad maintenance depot was established as the location was just before the highest section for the Transcontinental Railroad, so was an ideal place to turn up railroad engines prior to the big climb. The United States Army established Fort Russell adjacent to the town. It also became the main junction point for the gold shipments coming from the mines of Deadwood, South Dakota on the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage operated by the Wells Fargo Company. </p><p></p><p>A significant number of saloons and variety halls sprang up in this western boomtown. By 1882 the community had grown into a small city with a population of over 5,000 and had become quite civilized. Homesteaders from Germany, Scandinavia, Spain and Ireland had all settled into the area. The cattle industry had grown and with being a main railroad junction became the central location for shipping beef east to Chicago. </p><p></p><p>The railroad brought in a new middle and upper-middle class who established roots in the community. Cheyenne’s first Opera House had just been established and because of the cultural opportunities many well-to-do mining or ranching owners within 500 miles established fine summer homes in Cheyenne for their families. The lavishly furnished Cheyenne Club was established as a social establishment for this new upper class. This building featured a wide verandah, substantial dining room, billiard room, card room and library. By 1880 Cheyenne had become the wealthiest city per capita in the World. So it is not surprising that it was this community that the New Douglas Gang decided to carry out their next robbery. </p><p></p><p>The group arrived in town by horse from the south and made their way through the business section of town. Still dressed in their riding attire, they opted to bypass the fanciest of lodgings, finding an inn and boarding house in a more residential neighborhood to the eastern side of town. Deadeye and Mae handled the discussion with the innkeeper, dealing with his prejudices by explaining their Indian companion Flying Arrow as being their stable master, who would board with the horses.</p><p></p><p>Mae, Deadeye and Pamela brought their better clothes to a Chinese laundry to be cleaned and then found a bathhouse. Once presentable, they began to make inquiries about the city’s upper class individuals. Meanwhile, Pinto Joe, Sally and Mongo found several saloons to catch up on the local gossip. </p><p></p><p>By the next day Mae had begun flirting with a wealthy southern widower who was summering in Cheyenne. She managed to finagle invitations for herself and her ‘brother’ Arthur to the Cheyenne Club. Pamela Yeats managed to find employment at the same club as a waitress. </p><p></p><p>For the next few days the three then began working as a team where Mae would flirt with a male patron while Deadeye pick pocketed his keys. He would then pass the keys off to Pamela who would quickly make a clay cast of them, return the originals to Deadeye, who would then return them to the man’s pocket before they were ever noticed to be missing. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Pinto and Sally found out everything there was to know about the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage route. They found that most military shipments of gold were protected by a large contingent of soldiers from Fort Russell. However, the stage line also brought wealthy prospectors to town with minimal protection on those stages. Mongo spent most of these days at the Cheyenne Social Club, a brothel situated on the south side of town across the railroad tracks. </p><p></p><p>Mae also checked out the seven banks in town, discovering two to have vaults and safes manufactured by the Harrisburg Safe Company. The smaller of these two banks had an older model that she still had the actual combination for. That next Mae, Deadeye and Pamela broke into the bank while the other four stood watch outside. The safe’s combination hadn’t been changed and they were in it within minutes, finding it filled with currency. </p><p></p><p>Deciding that this night was primarily a “scouting mission” they only took a half-dozen stacks of banded bills from the bottom of the pile, replacing the packages of bills with Confederate bills to which they put a few real bills on the top and bottom. They then spent the next few days using the money from those six stacks for the top and bottom bills on bundles with all of the other Confederate money from the Promise City Robbery. </p><p></p><p>Deadeye, Pamela and Mae continue to collect key impressions and find the addresses of the people the keys belonged to. They still needed to obtain smelting equipment to make keys from the molds to initiate the next series of robberies but before they could do so a newspaper reporter began following them. </p><p></p><p>The group spotted the newspaper editor following them and ambushed him near their hotel and sneaking him up into their rooms for interrogation. It turned out that the fine southern gentleman that Mae had gotten to know was himself a con-artist and drifter who had identified Mae and Deadeye and had spoken to the newspaper editor about a possible reward. Pinto thought the man needed to be killed. Deadeye insisted that they instead hogtie the reporter and leave him in their hotel room. Before exiting they made sure that the reporter ‘eavesdropped’ on their plans to travel east to rob a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska (while in reality they planned to travel first north and then south). </p><p></p><p>They left town that night, after paying one more visit to the bank and replacing all of the real money in safe with the fake bundles. They traveled north where two days later they then utilized the information that Pinto Joe and Sally had gathered about the stagecoach heading from the gold mines. An ambush was set up on a bridge over a river. Mongo stopped the horses, which Flying Arrow then calmed down. Pinto Joe and Shotgun Sally shot and killed the stagecoach driver and the Wells Fargo guard. Mae Clark shot and killed a United States Army Soldier who had also been assigned to the shipment (although afterwards she allowed Deadeye to believe that Joe and Sally had also done that killing). </p><p></p><p>Flying Arrow mentioned how this could cause real problems, as killing the soldier will now mean that the United States Army may be after them, with Fort Russell just a short distance away. The three bodies were weighted down and left in the river beneath the bridge. There were three prospectors as passengers on the stagecoach and Joe felt they should be all be killed to eliminate witnesses. Deadeye insisted instead that they be tied up instead and left in the woods. </p><p></p><p>The gold was locked within a metal chest built into the stagecoach itself, so Deadeye decided that instead of trying to get it out while on a main road they should just take the entire stagecoach. They then headed south, taking back roads to get around Cheyenne and into Colorado. Flying Arrow negotiated their passage through the Arapaho Indian Reservation. </p><p></p><p>They eventually found an abandoned mine near Granby, Colorado with a boarded up main entrance large enough to get the stagecoach through. The gold and cash, valued at approximatley $ 15,000, was divided up evenly between the members of the Gang. Mongo gave his to Pamela to take care of. Flying Arrow kept a few hundred dollars but decided to give Pamela the rest as well, as she was wiser in how to handle white man’s money for future use. </p><p></p><p>The Gang decided would be safer if they split up for the immediate future. Pinto and Sally used put their rustling experience to work in changing the brands on the stolen horses. Mae and Sally then found and convinced a local rancher to board the stagecoach horses for them during the next three months.</p><p></p><p>Deadeye and Mae then rode the short distance to her home in Boulder, where they have been living comfortably for the last ten weeks and have wisely invested their ill-gotten gains. The time went by quickly. </p><p></p><p>Pinto and Sally rode off a short distance to Denver, Colorado. The city’s many dozen saloons proved to be a lot of fun with the pair enjoyed spending two consecutive months of drinking, gambling and carousing. But the money ran out and they were soon broke again. </p><p></p><p>Flying Arrow went back to the Arapaho Reservation where he used the money that he had kept to buy needed provisions for the Arapaho people. He spent two months there as their guest. </p><p></p><p>Mongo rode south with Pamela as far as the mining town of Dillon, Colorado where she was able to line up employment for him at a mine. Unlike the other six who were all staying in northern Colorado, Pamela decided to get some distance. She rode to Colorado Springs where she had her horse boarded at a stable and then got on the next eastbound train. She spend the next two months in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri where she has invested most of her money as well as that belonging to Flying Arrow and Mongo. Prior to the planned reunion she returned to Colorado Springs, picked up her horse, and rode back to get Mongo. She then purchased a wagon of supplies for use to paint and modify the appearance of the stagecoach. </p><p></p><p>The group all head back to meet up at the Granby mine on the pre-designated date of Friday, May 26th, 1882.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 2685799, member: 8530"] [B]Prelude – “Cheyenne” – March 6th to May 25th, 1882 [/B] [I][GM’s note: This prelude chronicles the one prior game played using these same characters, played on June 6, 2005 with a different group of players.][/I] Cheyenne, Wyoming is located in the southeast corner of the Wyoming Territory not far from the borders of the States of Colorado and Nebraska. The community was inhabited by the Cheyenne Indian tribe, who themselves get their name from the Sioux phrase “sha hi ye na” which translates as “speaker of strange language”. The community itself was only fifteen years old, having begun as a tent city in 1867 that General Granville Dodge set up for the workers on the Union Pacific railroad. A rail yard and railroad maintenance depot was established as the location was just before the highest section for the Transcontinental Railroad, so was an ideal place to turn up railroad engines prior to the big climb. The United States Army established Fort Russell adjacent to the town. It also became the main junction point for the gold shipments coming from the mines of Deadwood, South Dakota on the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage operated by the Wells Fargo Company. A significant number of saloons and variety halls sprang up in this western boomtown. By 1882 the community had grown into a small city with a population of over 5,000 and had become quite civilized. Homesteaders from Germany, Scandinavia, Spain and Ireland had all settled into the area. The cattle industry had grown and with being a main railroad junction became the central location for shipping beef east to Chicago. The railroad brought in a new middle and upper-middle class who established roots in the community. Cheyenne’s first Opera House had just been established and because of the cultural opportunities many well-to-do mining or ranching owners within 500 miles established fine summer homes in Cheyenne for their families. The lavishly furnished Cheyenne Club was established as a social establishment for this new upper class. This building featured a wide verandah, substantial dining room, billiard room, card room and library. By 1880 Cheyenne had become the wealthiest city per capita in the World. So it is not surprising that it was this community that the New Douglas Gang decided to carry out their next robbery. The group arrived in town by horse from the south and made their way through the business section of town. Still dressed in their riding attire, they opted to bypass the fanciest of lodgings, finding an inn and boarding house in a more residential neighborhood to the eastern side of town. Deadeye and Mae handled the discussion with the innkeeper, dealing with his prejudices by explaining their Indian companion Flying Arrow as being their stable master, who would board with the horses. Mae, Deadeye and Pamela brought their better clothes to a Chinese laundry to be cleaned and then found a bathhouse. Once presentable, they began to make inquiries about the city’s upper class individuals. Meanwhile, Pinto Joe, Sally and Mongo found several saloons to catch up on the local gossip. By the next day Mae had begun flirting with a wealthy southern widower who was summering in Cheyenne. She managed to finagle invitations for herself and her ‘brother’ Arthur to the Cheyenne Club. Pamela Yeats managed to find employment at the same club as a waitress. For the next few days the three then began working as a team where Mae would flirt with a male patron while Deadeye pick pocketed his keys. He would then pass the keys off to Pamela who would quickly make a clay cast of them, return the originals to Deadeye, who would then return them to the man’s pocket before they were ever noticed to be missing. Meanwhile, Pinto and Sally found out everything there was to know about the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage route. They found that most military shipments of gold were protected by a large contingent of soldiers from Fort Russell. However, the stage line also brought wealthy prospectors to town with minimal protection on those stages. Mongo spent most of these days at the Cheyenne Social Club, a brothel situated on the south side of town across the railroad tracks. Mae also checked out the seven banks in town, discovering two to have vaults and safes manufactured by the Harrisburg Safe Company. The smaller of these two banks had an older model that she still had the actual combination for. That next Mae, Deadeye and Pamela broke into the bank while the other four stood watch outside. The safe’s combination hadn’t been changed and they were in it within minutes, finding it filled with currency. Deciding that this night was primarily a “scouting mission” they only took a half-dozen stacks of banded bills from the bottom of the pile, replacing the packages of bills with Confederate bills to which they put a few real bills on the top and bottom. They then spent the next few days using the money from those six stacks for the top and bottom bills on bundles with all of the other Confederate money from the Promise City Robbery. Deadeye, Pamela and Mae continue to collect key impressions and find the addresses of the people the keys belonged to. They still needed to obtain smelting equipment to make keys from the molds to initiate the next series of robberies but before they could do so a newspaper reporter began following them. The group spotted the newspaper editor following them and ambushed him near their hotel and sneaking him up into their rooms for interrogation. It turned out that the fine southern gentleman that Mae had gotten to know was himself a con-artist and drifter who had identified Mae and Deadeye and had spoken to the newspaper editor about a possible reward. Pinto thought the man needed to be killed. Deadeye insisted that they instead hogtie the reporter and leave him in their hotel room. Before exiting they made sure that the reporter ‘eavesdropped’ on their plans to travel east to rob a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska (while in reality they planned to travel first north and then south). They left town that night, after paying one more visit to the bank and replacing all of the real money in safe with the fake bundles. They traveled north where two days later they then utilized the information that Pinto Joe and Sally had gathered about the stagecoach heading from the gold mines. An ambush was set up on a bridge over a river. Mongo stopped the horses, which Flying Arrow then calmed down. Pinto Joe and Shotgun Sally shot and killed the stagecoach driver and the Wells Fargo guard. Mae Clark shot and killed a United States Army Soldier who had also been assigned to the shipment (although afterwards she allowed Deadeye to believe that Joe and Sally had also done that killing). Flying Arrow mentioned how this could cause real problems, as killing the soldier will now mean that the United States Army may be after them, with Fort Russell just a short distance away. The three bodies were weighted down and left in the river beneath the bridge. There were three prospectors as passengers on the stagecoach and Joe felt they should be all be killed to eliminate witnesses. Deadeye insisted instead that they be tied up instead and left in the woods. The gold was locked within a metal chest built into the stagecoach itself, so Deadeye decided that instead of trying to get it out while on a main road they should just take the entire stagecoach. They then headed south, taking back roads to get around Cheyenne and into Colorado. Flying Arrow negotiated their passage through the Arapaho Indian Reservation. They eventually found an abandoned mine near Granby, Colorado with a boarded up main entrance large enough to get the stagecoach through. The gold and cash, valued at approximatley $ 15,000, was divided up evenly between the members of the Gang. Mongo gave his to Pamela to take care of. Flying Arrow kept a few hundred dollars but decided to give Pamela the rest as well, as she was wiser in how to handle white man’s money for future use. The Gang decided would be safer if they split up for the immediate future. Pinto and Sally used put their rustling experience to work in changing the brands on the stolen horses. Mae and Sally then found and convinced a local rancher to board the stagecoach horses for them during the next three months. Deadeye and Mae then rode the short distance to her home in Boulder, where they have been living comfortably for the last ten weeks and have wisely invested their ill-gotten gains. The time went by quickly. Pinto and Sally rode off a short distance to Denver, Colorado. The city’s many dozen saloons proved to be a lot of fun with the pair enjoyed spending two consecutive months of drinking, gambling and carousing. But the money ran out and they were soon broke again. Flying Arrow went back to the Arapaho Reservation where he used the money that he had kept to buy needed provisions for the Arapaho people. He spent two months there as their guest. Mongo rode south with Pamela as far as the mining town of Dillon, Colorado where she was able to line up employment for him at a mine. Unlike the other six who were all staying in northern Colorado, Pamela decided to get some distance. She rode to Colorado Springs where she had her horse boarded at a stable and then got on the next eastbound train. She spend the next two months in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri where she has invested most of her money as well as that belonging to Flying Arrow and Mongo. Prior to the planned reunion she returned to Colorado Springs, picked up her horse, and rode back to get Mongo. She then purchased a wagon of supplies for use to paint and modify the appearance of the stagecoach. The group all head back to meet up at the Granby mine on the pre-designated date of Friday, May 26th, 1882. [/QUOTE]
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