Mitheral
"Growf!"
History of New Mexico
A young man is thrown back in time to 1881 to the Territory of New Mexico. More specifically he travels to Albuquerque, NM 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 began to reach the region. The train reached Santa Fe in 1880, later Albuquerque, and Deming in 1881. The New Mexico Education Association will form in 1886. The first colleges will open in 1889.
Note: The Homestead Act was in 1862.
You are a young woman 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 skyrockets in downtown until they finally get a marshall.) You can even be foreign and have immigrated with hopes of living the American dream. (However, read the history brief below.) 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.)
History Brief
(Billy the Kid’s big period was 1878-1880.) Avoid being hispanic (nuevomexicanos) 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 33 years old, unfamiliar with colloquial mannerisms, speech, clothing, costs, culture. He stands out in a crowd without trying. He is 6’7” built like a football quarterback, short black hair, sharp blue eyes.
I am looking for a writer not so wrapped up in other RP’s and real life that they can’t post steadily. I generally have weekends off and can manage another post during the week. I tend to average a page per post.
Note: I am not stuck on this time. It is just one I know well and researched. I have also looked at a few others that are wildly different. 5000 BCE, 1000 BCE, Ancient Rome, …. But I have different plans for those.
Also: when I first developed this idea, I hadn’t considered that BOTH characters could have been time trawled into the past. So that is an option as well, though I’d prefer they arrive independently and not know one another before the RP start. Either or both could be new arrivals or have lived there for a short time.
Contact via PM. Let me know what options you prefer, and about your character. I will ask for a CS.
A young man is thrown back in time to 1881 to the Territory of New Mexico. More specifically he travels to Albuquerque, NM 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 began to reach the region. The train reached Santa Fe in 1880, later Albuquerque, and Deming in 1881. The New Mexico Education Association will form in 1886. The first colleges will open in 1889.
Note: The Homestead Act was in 1862.
You are a young woman 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 skyrockets in downtown until they finally get a marshall.) You can even be foreign and have immigrated with hopes of living the American dream. (However, read the history brief below.) 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.)
History Brief
(Billy the Kid’s big period was 1878-1880.) Avoid being hispanic (nuevomexicanos) 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 33 years old, unfamiliar with colloquial mannerisms, speech, clothing, costs, culture. He stands out in a crowd without trying. He is 6’7” built like a football quarterback, short black hair, sharp blue eyes.
I am looking for a writer not so wrapped up in other RP’s and real life that they can’t post steadily. I generally have weekends off and can manage another post during the week. I tend to average a page per post.
Note: I am not stuck on this time. It is just one I know well and researched. I have also looked at a few others that are wildly different. 5000 BCE, 1000 BCE, Ancient Rome, …. But I have different plans for those.
Also: when I first developed this idea, I hadn’t considered that BOTH characters could have been time trawled into the past. So that is an option as well, though I’d prefer they arrive independently and not know one another before the RP start. Either or both could be new arrivals or have lived there for a short time.
Contact via PM. Let me know what options you prefer, and about your character. I will ask for a CS.
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