Crimson Pirate's Outlaw Campaign - Background, History, and Culture

Native American Tribes

Native American tribes common in Kansas include:

• Cheyenne
• Arapaho
• Plains Apache
• Comanche
• Kiowa
• Kiowa apache
• Wichita
• Pawnee
• Kansa
• Osage - Most common in Hope area.

19th, 20th, and 21st century terminology, technology, and culture

Cowboys - While "cowboy" is widely used today to refer to people who work with cattle it was originally perjorative and implied an unhealthily close relationship with the cattle. Most of the people we think of as "cowboys" would have referred to themselves as drovers. They drove cattle from the ranch where the cattle were raised to railheads in Kansas for transport to slaughterhouses in Chicago, and New York. In the absence of refrigeration meat would spoil quickly, and so the slaughterhouses needed to be close to their market. The cattle had to be kept alive until they got close to the people that would be eating them and using their by products.

Medicine - Medicine is primitive by our standards. Dr. Lister has only proposed his theory of germs a short while ago, and anti septic technique is only practiced by a few advanced practitioners. Antibiotics won't be invented for another 60 or so years. Wounds often become infected, and wounded limbs are frequently amputated. People die from all sorts of infections and diseases easily treated today. The pharmaceutical industry won't exist until antibiotics are discovered, so doctors must make their own pills, syrups, elixirs, concoctions, and decoctions. Doctors understand the observable course of diseases very well. They just don't understand the causes and can't do much about it.

Not a Card Holdout - The Wizard device, commonly sold or billed as a card holdout device actually wasn't. At the time men's cuffs, and collars were seperate from their shirts to facilitate changing if they became soiled. The Wizard Device was to hold one's cuffs in place. Had it been a card holdout the clip would need to face the other way.