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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_M..

This is the story of a young man (age 21) who travels back in time from the early 21st century to 1881 to the Territory of New Mexico. More specifically, he travels to Albuquerque for this is where he was from in the 21st century. New Mexico won’t be a state until 1912.

Homesteaders began moving into the area in the late 1870’s as the trains finally begin to reach the region. The train reached Santa Fe in 1880, later Albuquerque, and Deming in 1881. The New Mexico Education Association is formed in 1886. The first colleges open in 1889.

Note: The Homestead Act was in 1862.

You are a young woman (18-23) that has either grown up in the region or moved here during this turbulent era. You can live on a ranch or in town. But I am using Albuquerque as the focal point. (It starts its boom in 1880-81. Crime sky rockets in downtown until they finally get a Marshall.) You can even be foreign and have immigrated with hopes of living the American dream. I enjoy characters that represent a little imagination and creativity, so I don’t want to tell you what to be. Big ranch owner’s daughter? School teacher? (Civil War anything doesn’t fit because of time. You would have been a child.)

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(Billy the Kid’s big period was 1878-1880.) I would avoid being Hispanic (neuvomexicanos) as they were second class citizens. Native Americans had it worse. Slavery and even indentured servitude was outlawed in New Mexico in 1862, but blacks are less than second class citizens in this time. Same is true is just about anyone not White really. And women won’t get to vote until 1920 in New Mexico.

Our young man is age 21, unfamiliar with colloquial mannerisms, speech, clothing, costs, culture. But he has studied the history of the period rather heavily and recently. He stands out in a crowd without trying. He is 6’7” built like a football quarterback, short black hair, sharp blue eyes. He walks with a limp (left side) and wears a fingerless deerskin leather glove on his left hand.

He is well armed with both rifle and pistol - a Peacemaker. He has already bought - at far too high a price - a neighboring homestead. It is far from the best land in the region. Most ranchers would say he was taken. Most will expect his ranch to utterly fail.
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Post is finished! @Mitheral

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Derailed my plans for town. Kinda shortened my post. But I'll see what you have in mind at your ranch.
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Dont know yet! Improvisation is really the key here lol.
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Yep, I figured next was her accepting the ride or walking back to inform her father about company. And then ... Duncan meeting her family (like it or not).
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Will try to get something up at some point today. Having family issues.
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Understood. Hope everything gets better.
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Fyi, my laptop crashed. This tablet is a backup I nearly turned into a Frisbee when I first got it. Glad I didn't now. Better than nothing.
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Getting used to the tablet. But typing on it is so different. Work is annoying me. Truck needs fixing. Need permits. Need to get laptop. All that is up north. They keep sending me south.
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I've been editing a bit, adding some material to my last post. Stuff looks longer on a tablet. Realized my post ... sucked. I needed to give you more to work with.

Hope the family stuff is going as well as possible under the circumstances.
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And added even more. Lol, got bored. Waiting on another driver to bring me a loaded trailer.
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I've been editing a bit, adding some material to my last post. Stuff looks longer on a tablet. Realized my post ... sucked. I needed to give you more to work with.

Hope the family stuff is going as well as possible under the circumstances.


It wasn't too short, it was enough to work with I thought. Just having a tough time thinking for rps in general atm. Just dealing with family stuff like you said - things are going a lot smoother due to my mediation between feuding members. The funeral is Thursday so will be going home for the week so a lot of travel and off internet due to come. Will try to get something in over the next couple days if I can conjure up some thought processes.
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Well, if the feud gets to bad, feel free to vent here. I think I was spared the worst when no one told me my parents passed away. I got a letter from the lawyers 6 months after. I hadn't changed my phone number in 8 years at the time and everyone knew I drove an 18 wheeler.
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Ouch that sucks a lot for you. Sorry to hear, must have been really rough losing them. :( Touch wood my dad has a while yet, he is 82 though. =/

It seems I've managed to mediate well and all is fine for the funeral so that's one less thing off my mind. We can say goodbye peacefully. And I can move on without any negativity clouding the family.
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And I managed to pick up a new laptop yesterday. Just need time to set it up. Power issues. Never used win 10. Gotta figure out how to adjust power options. Then need to figure out how to connect it to my wifi. Been years since I had to use the password.
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Win 10 is easier imo. You can have the options to have desktop view or app view. Its quite versatile. :)
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Mapping software loaded up and running. Feeling MUCH better now. (Still gonna sulk about my old laptop. OMG .. tell me I am not like Sheldon of BBT....)
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You are like Sheldon of BBT. Especially if you have a storage facility for your old crap you cant throw away!
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Uhm ... well, just every comic from the 1980's (except Wolverine year 1 plus the annual - which I gave to a friend for Christmas) ... and VHS from 1980 to 1990 ... and roleplaying games of the same era .... and real swords from all the places I lived ... and some real middle ages armor I made ... and SCA gear ... from the 1980's ...

oh ... and nearly ever DvD put out since 1995 ....

1990-1995 was a dry spell. That was college days ... and I have all my college texts .. and notes ...

O ... M ... G ... maybe I am like Sheldon ... gah!

Seriously .. the only reason I haven't thrown it away is that I cling to the notion that I am going to settle down in a permanent home again and actually watch 1% of the DVD's. But if I win the lottery .. I am calling the Kidney Foundation or Goodwill to come pick it all up ... after I dig out any legal docs.
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Happy Valentine's Day.
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