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PINNACLE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, Inc. ™ TableTable o’o’ ContentsContents Posse Chapter Three: The Marshal’s Territory ..............3 The Fine Art o’ Handbook.......... 81 Gunslingin’ ...... 55 Gunfighting Clarifications ......................... 55 New Gunfighting Maneuvers ................................. 56 Superior Irons ............................. 60 Revisions ........................................... 63 Chapter Six: Chapter One: More Irons for the Fire ..... 64 Law & Order ... 83 Law in the Weapons Table Key .............. 68 Law in the Weird West ..... 83 Weapon Notes ............................. 68 Weird West .......... 5 Law in the Firing Systems............................ 70 Disputed Lands ................... 85 Lawmen in Shining Stars ................................ 86 the Weird West ....................... 6 No Man’s Famous Outlaws The Texas Rangers ....................7 Land ..................... 71 of the Weird West ............ 96 The Pinkerton National Marshal Shortcuts................ 102 Detective Agency ................. 9 The United States Chapter Seven: Marshals ....................................... 12 The United States On Top of Old Secret Service ........................ 13 Skull Hill, All The Provost Marshal............. 15 Covered in Sheriffs ................................................. 15 Blood! ............... 105 Town Marshals ............................ 15 Bounty Hunters .......................... 16 Famous Lawmen of the Weird West ..............17 The Law of the West .......... 27 Chapter Four: The Law in The Finer Art o’ the Weird West ..................... 31 Hexslingin’....... 73 Law in the Makin’ Hexslingers ................ 74 Disputed Lands ................... 33 Hexslinger Hexes...................... 74 Famous Outlaws of the Weird West ............ 34 Chapter Five: Chapter Two: New Relics ....... 79 Lawmen & Outlaws .............. 41 Makin’ Lawmen .......................... 41 New Stuff ......................................... 44 Makin’ Outlaws.......................... 45 Underworld Slang ................... 49 Archetypes ......... 50 Posse Territory Law in the West Posse: 6 Chapter One: Law in the Weird West Austin, Texas supernatural phenomena that my men face on a April 20, 1876 daily basis, you must realize that what transpires in the field may be different from The Honorable Blaine Howard what is in these pages. Attorney General, Confederate States of America It should also go without saying that my Bibb Street sources of information about the conduct of Richmond, Virginia peace officers in the North are not necessarily complete or accurate. They endeavor to hide Dear Blaine: themselves from us as we do from them, and It is my pleasure to present you with the while I have complete confidence in my people report that you requested of me some months and their ability to gather information, some ago concerning the state of law enforcement facts are simply unavailable to them. Where and crime in the Confederacy, the Disputed advisable, I have speculated on the state of Lands, and in the North. I believe that this report affairs in these institutions. will answer all of the questions you put to me I hope that you will forgive the familiar tone when I received this assignment. that has crept into an otherwise formal report in I must tell you that I am quite proud of the places. It has been my experience that a friendly final results of our labors, which you now hold word or personal observation or two lightens in your hands. Both my subordinates and myself these reports and makes them of greater value have worked tirelessly to ensure that as much to the reader. Furthermore, given our long and information was collected for this report as we treasured friendship, I feel justified in speaking could reasonably obtain, and all of the facts to you frankly, and a kind word often renders presented have been thoroughly reviewed and unpleasant subjects much more palatable. examined so that you and President Davis will have the most accurate information available to Your obedient servant, you. However, I must caution you that the field of law enforcement, and the underworld which it ceaselessly and vigilantly opposes, are fluid and continuously moving. They change constantly, General William H. King and information becomes old quickly. When this State Adjutant fact is considered in conjunction with the State of Texas Posse: 7 Law in the West Lawmen in the Weird West Note that I do not say this is a “more sedate” or “calmer” means of earning your keep. The life Whether they’re a part of a national of a lawman is often a difficult and exciting one. organization or employed by a small town in the From ruthless criminals and killers like John middle of nowhere, whether they work for South Wesley Hardin and “Deacon” Jim Miller, to rowdy or for North, the lawmen of the Confederacy and cowpokes with lots of money to spend and an the United States all have one thing in common: even greater lack of decorum, to drunken They work hard to uphold the law and keep gamblers, the lawman sees it all and takes care peace in a troubled land. of it. Usually he can get by with his fists and his They’re not all saints, mind you. In fact, it’s voice, but sometimes things get ugly, and he has often said that to keep control of the to drill a few holes in the bad guys. All in a day’s desperadoes, you need another desperado. Or to work. put it in the words that more than one town There’s more for Texas Rangers and other council has used, you don’t want a nice guy to lawmen to handle these days than ever before. take up marshaling, you want someone who can Since the so-called “Reckoning” in 1863, peace get the job done. officers across both countries have been hard- Some lawmen do indeed have checkered pressed to deal with a flood of wendigos, pasts. Many are veterans of the War Between the walking dead, and other threats that once States who have drifted West to seek their existed only in storybooks. fortune—perhaps without asking permission to Coping with these horrors has only further leave the fighting first. Some come to the law strained the ability of organizations like the after years of driving up and down the cattle Rangers to enforce the law. I pray, after reading trails, or from a career as a gunslinger or the words set forth here, that you will see fit to bounty hunter. And more than one lawman is a grant me the money I have requested for reformed criminal, relinquishing his outlaw ways additional men and equipment to keep the to seek a more legitimate means of earning a people of the Confederacy as safe and secure as living. possible. Posse: 8 Law in the West The Texas Rangers Nobody around the border has forgotten that nickname or how we got it either. We earned it My good friend John Ford, one of the first and through sheer grit and the loss of many a brave greatest Texas Rangers, once wrote in his Ranger—God rest their souls. newspaper that “Texas Rangers can ride like a When the War Between the States broke out Mexican, trail like an Indian, shoot like a and Texas seceded from the Union, most Tennessean, and fight like a devil.” I cannot Rangers joined the Confederate Army (a dispute, and indeed heartily second, this fine sufficient number remained in Texas to keep the characterization of my men, whom I consider to border areas and settlers safe). They fought as be the finest peace officers in the Americas. regular and highly-regarded soldiers until 1863. Despite our collective name, the Texas After the Reckoning occurred, General Robert E. Rangers are the national police of the Lee withdrew the Rangers from regular service Confederate States of America, not just Texas. and put us to work investigating and taking care Although technically we are now an arm of the of the “weirdness”. Lee and the rest of the military, our function is pretty much the same Confederate government soon saw how efficient as that of any other police organization, with we were and how valuable it was to have a law- one exception: We know that things changed in enforcement organization with national the West 13 years ago, and we’re working to keep jurisdiction. a lid on the weirdness—even though that Issues of states’ rights aside, it must be sometimes means recruiting the opposition. realized that a certain amount of national We don’t just chase bank robbers and cattle authority is necessary if one is to, in fact, have a rustlers anymore. Now we go after unimaginable nation. Fortunately the Confederacy soon came horrors as well. to this understanding as it applies to enforcement of the law. In 1866, Confederate History President Jefferson Davis finally realized the need for a national police force independent The Texas Rangers’ roots go all the way back from the military itself. In his now-famous “July to 1823, when self-appointed “ranging Memorandum,” Davis authorized the Texas companies” of men began patrolling the Texas Rangers to “act as a police force for the frontier to defend it against marauding Indians Confederate States of America, having and other threats.