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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7707703" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I don't think even most Americans are aware how short the era of the cattle drive actually was.</p><p></p><p>As for the adventure set in the 'Dry County', I wish I could read more of the text than just the blurb. Who ever wrote it knows who Carrie Nation is, but apparently in the adventure the Carrie Nation stand in has some sort of small army and is going to force Scott County to turn dry against the inhabitant's wishes. Now, Scott County is dry to this day, and anyone that wants a drink has to drive over the mountain to Fort Smith. Waldron at the time was a sleepy town of 200 that probably was mostly a dry goods store, a school, and a Methodist church - hardly the sort of den of iniquity that would need to be made dry and probably quite the other way around. But the idea of going over the mountain and attacking Fort Smith, or that in the immediate post-Civil War era someone in the south could raise a militia complete with cannon under the noses of the US Cavalry or US Marshalls (depending on the date) literally just over the mountain seems a bit of a stretch to me and sort of seems to misunderstand the whole temperance movement.</p><p></p><p>But, fantasy Western, alla 'The Wild, Wild West' I suppose.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, there is an old legend popular in those parts as far back as the 19th century that Viking explorers went up the Arkansas river and its tributaries as far as Oklahoma. Pranksters are prone to carve what they think are Viking runes in the rocks to play tricks on people. If you were going to have a 'Wild, Wild West' style fantasy western, and write it in Sweden, I'd imagine the Viking explorers would turn out to be real.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7707703, member: 4937"] I don't think even most Americans are aware how short the era of the cattle drive actually was. As for the adventure set in the 'Dry County', I wish I could read more of the text than just the blurb. Who ever wrote it knows who Carrie Nation is, but apparently in the adventure the Carrie Nation stand in has some sort of small army and is going to force Scott County to turn dry against the inhabitant's wishes. Now, Scott County is dry to this day, and anyone that wants a drink has to drive over the mountain to Fort Smith. Waldron at the time was a sleepy town of 200 that probably was mostly a dry goods store, a school, and a Methodist church - hardly the sort of den of iniquity that would need to be made dry and probably quite the other way around. But the idea of going over the mountain and attacking Fort Smith, or that in the immediate post-Civil War era someone in the south could raise a militia complete with cannon under the noses of the US Cavalry or US Marshalls (depending on the date) literally just over the mountain seems a bit of a stretch to me and sort of seems to misunderstand the whole temperance movement. But, fantasy Western, alla 'The Wild, Wild West' I suppose. Interestingly, there is an old legend popular in those parts as far back as the 19th century that Viking explorers went up the Arkansas river and its tributaries as far as Oklahoma. Pranksters are prone to carve what they think are Viking runes in the rocks to play tricks on people. If you were going to have a 'Wild, Wild West' style fantasy western, and write it in Sweden, I'd imagine the Viking explorers would turn out to be real. [/QUOTE]
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