Re: [DL] Specific states with supernatural happens

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Hell, LV was nowhere until Bugsy came along in the late 1940's.  ;-)
          Daniel Gwyn
"No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"
From "The Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers (1949-1983)
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>
À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : December 7, 2001 1:46 PM
Objet : RE: [DL] Specific states with supernatural happens


> >Nevada is my home half the year and I really wouldn't
> >call it a state of Gloom by any sense of the word.
> >Gambling, I'll give you that one but anyone who has
> >had the misfortune to sit through a flight incoming to
> >Vegas on a Friday evening, knows that gloom is not the
> >word to use.
>
>Actually.  Gambling wasn't legalized in Las Vegas until 1910 or so.  Until
>that point LV was only a tiny stopping hole for trains to take on water.
>
>And as for fear in the Silver State. . .  two words for you . . . Comstock
>Lode.  Virginia City was home to some of the richest men in America during
>the silver boom, due to the incredibly rich silver deposits.
>
>There was a piece of mining equipment used that rapidly earned the nickname
>"widowmaker".  It pulverized the rock so finely that the miners lungs would
>get cut up from the dust and they would die in a very bad way.
>
>The trail in to Virginia City is cut out of the mountains and for a large
>part of it no wider than one yard - with a sheer rock wall on one side and
>a sheer drop on the other.
>
>If you ever get a chance, stop by Virginia City - it's about an hour south
>of Reno and is a pure tourist trap - but one with an Old West theme.  They
>have one of the silver baron's houses nearly perfectly kept.  Awesome.
>
>
>-------------------
>Allan Seyberth
>darious@darious.com
>Deadlands fan site - http://www.darious.com/
>
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