Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2015 16:08:18 GMT
The year is 1881, the new railroad and station in El Paso has caused the population to boom from a couple of hundred to over one thousand in only a few years. Aided by the ever-present William de la Vue, Mayor of the city of El Paso, the Deming Railway Company seeks to expands lines through New Mexico, and all the way to the plentiful lands of California. Such a situation threatens to kill off the frontier settlements in New Mexico, a territory vying for statehood, and it will take an monumental effort to prevent their livelihoods fading away into the desert.
The low level development of New Mexico brings with it some problems. There has been a lack of able lawmen to stem the tide of corruption and vice which ravages the territory. There is little water, and much of what is present is controlled by Eastern industrialists or located on Apache lands. Despite this, the frontier is growing. With stories of gold up in the hills of Grant county, many of the nations impoverished are flocking westward in search of buried treasure. Some more ambitious characters hope to find a lost city of gold left by a splinter culture of the legendary Azteca civilisation. New Mexico is burdened further by the border with Mexico which, defended further East by the rampaging waters of the Rio Grande, is home to the vast and unforgiving Chihuahuan Desert. The desert harasses and restricts legitimate settlers, whilst simultaneously cloaking the activities of smugglers and outlaws.
However the greatest threat can be found in the wrath of the Apaches. Famed warriors, hunters and tacticians, they can strike at any time with almost no warning. No towns, however large, are safe from the disaffected and vengeful Apache tribes people who want nothing more than to rid their ancestral lands of the destructive and dangerous white man.
The low level development of New Mexico brings with it some problems. There has been a lack of able lawmen to stem the tide of corruption and vice which ravages the territory. There is little water, and much of what is present is controlled by Eastern industrialists or located on Apache lands. Despite this, the frontier is growing. With stories of gold up in the hills of Grant county, many of the nations impoverished are flocking westward in search of buried treasure. Some more ambitious characters hope to find a lost city of gold left by a splinter culture of the legendary Azteca civilisation. New Mexico is burdened further by the border with Mexico which, defended further East by the rampaging waters of the Rio Grande, is home to the vast and unforgiving Chihuahuan Desert. The desert harasses and restricts legitimate settlers, whilst simultaneously cloaking the activities of smugglers and outlaws.
However the greatest threat can be found in the wrath of the Apaches. Famed warriors, hunters and tacticians, they can strike at any time with almost no warning. No towns, however large, are safe from the disaffected and vengeful Apache tribes people who want nothing more than to rid their ancestral lands of the destructive and dangerous white man.