WELCOME TO DEVIL'S GULCH

SHERIFF RANDALL STOCKBRIDGE

Rarely seen by day, Stockbridge is more inclined to send his gregarious deputy to break up fights between cowpunchers or to help retrieve a kitten stranded in a tree. But when evil comes, it is the tall, dark lean sheriff who appears with his pearl-handled six shooters. His badge is said to be pure silver, not tin.
 

DEPUTY SHERIFF BILL WATKINS

Friendly, talkative Bill Watkins is every-ready to help the ladies of the Church Auxiliary or to try a sip of home brew with a salty old trapper in the hills. Despite his bumpkin-esque antiques, Watkins bares strange arcane symbolic scars on his chest. He speaks fluent Latin and Greek, and has been known to shoot the center from a silver dollar thrown into the air.

LUELLA MILLER-THOMPSON

Once a famous singer in the music halls of NYC, Luella, now on the less friendly side of forty, runs the local saloon/home for soiled doves known as DEVIL'S FIDDLE SALOON. She has only three rules: no spitting, no weapons and no IOUs.

HANCH (First or last name unknown?)

Luella's barman and bouncer. Hanch is an ex-cow-hand with arms like most men's legs. The sawed off shotgun under the bar, beside the hickory axe handle, is rarely seen. Hanch once put his entire fist through a gambler who refused to pay a soiled dove and struck her.

BENNETT BARR

A man of color he runs the gambling at the Devil's Fiddle. A veteran of the Civil War he rode with Quantrell. The only thing faster than his card shuffling is his karate chops to the throat. He always wears gloves and never drinks alcohol.

"DEUCE" VELACROIX

Gambler and portrait painter, of Spanish ancestry by way of New Orleans. A real lady's man, though he attends church religiously on Sundays. One of the local catholic priests claims to have seen a mural portrait with Deuce's signature dated 1572.

JOHNNY "BLACK DUCK" GEORGE

A member of the local Indian tribe, the Shoshonki*, he wages a silent war on those who would steal the tribe's land. Claiming descent from the shaman who turned the risen dead in 1859, he has been known to use magic against his enemies.

*The Shoshonki are an unusual tribe in that they share no ancentry with the surrounding Comanche. Their legends claim they came from the distant South, where they built pyramids and engaged in human sacrifice.
 

BERNARD "BOSS" McFADDEN

Local cattle baron who ruthless kills free-grazers and Indians alike. With a virtual army of cattlemen he rides rough-shod over those who oppose. Only Sheriff Stockbridge has been known to cross him and live to tell the tale. McFadden is always accompanied by either a priest in a black cassock or a large black dog, but never both.

LOUIS BRILL

Local bookseller, Brill owns a small bookshop on Main street. Despite his making very few sales, brill never seems to run out of money or to give up his vocation. He once said, "To sell the right book to the right man is a worthier endeavor than to sell a library to a Neandrathal. (Nobody is quite sure what a Neandrathal is but they take it it ain't good.)
 

DOCTOR "DOC" ISAIAH PRITCHARD

Doc Pritchard took over the trade from his father Zebediah Pritchard fourteen years before. An older man he lives alone except for his only servant, a black woman who is only known as "Pritchard's gal". She was Pritchard's father's servant as well.

SEAN "BLACKY" O'DELL

An Irishman from Ulster "Blacky" O'Dell is a skilled metal-worker who loves to sing in his tenor voice as he works. Once an indentured servant, he is married to the daughter of the man who once held his ticket. Mrs. O'Dell is a shrill-voice harridan who sees little of her husband. They have no children.

"SKINNY" OSBERG

The young boyish Skinny is an unmarried woman who runs the local school. Many men have tried to tell her how to run her school, which educates all children regardless of race, even threatened to burn the place down. All of them were found horribly trampled to death in their own beds. Though found clear of any charges, Skinny does not attract any suitors with the dark rumors still running about town. Nor would the local moms refuse to send their children to her.