This blog is a big Work in Progress. Hopefully someone can find this useful. Use the buttons below to navigate. In an act that further proves their treachery and villainy, restless and disruptive forces amongst the Indian population have once again attacked the American forces, this time in an effort to free one of their own.
A murderer known as Eagle Flies was broken out of an Army barracks at Fort Wallace where he was set to stand trial for a series of murders of Army personnel. In a daring attack in the middle of the night, members of his disruptive tribe attacked soldiers, brutally killing them and fleeing with their comrade.
Eagle Flies is the son of Rains Fall, a chief of the disruptive tribe that makes up most of the population of the Wapiti Indian Reservation. The tribe has become unmanageable and more obstinate at every punishment handed down and treaty broken. Colonel Favours, who supervises Fort Wallace, has vowed swift and unrelenting measures to control the Indian problem in the region.
Gone is the New Austin Northern Railroad. Long forgotten is the Armadillo Express Railroad. Only the oldest among us remembers the Valentine Valley Railway. As each year passes, dozens of railway are formed, combine, and break up, the signs changed, the schedules printed anew, and the names are lost to history. Since completion of the first transcontinental railroad in , the number of companies has decreased, and travel by wagon and horse becomes less and less in fashion, with more people preferring the luxury of a sleeper car.
Lawmakers are beginning to investigate whether the railway consolidation has resulted in creating regional monopolies that subject riders to hefty price increases. Just a few years ago an influenza pandemic spread across the globe, spreading fever and misery to all within its touch, killing well over a million people.
