Summary: a brief snippet with a re-imagined, old-west Cass. A/N: Boot River, Texas, is completely made up. The historical events referenced are not.
The city of Boot River, Texas, was not without its scandals. The most controversial of its two thousand residents was doubtless Miss Cassidy-her daddy had been a Texas Ranger before he got hisself killed in the Mexican War (no body had ever been recovered, and Miss Cassidy insisted that he was still alive, though she was quite happy to collect his pension). Her mother had been baptized into the Christian church for love of Miss Cassidy's father, though she had died of a fever sometime after her daughter's 16th birthday.
Miss Cassidy had her father's red hair and her mother's high cheekbones. She was what was euphemistically referred to as a 'prairie dove,' having eloped with a gold miner after her mother's death. No one saw neither hide nor hair of her for years, until the day she breezed back into town with a bare ring finger and the deed to a Californian gold mine.
Her unexpected homecoming gave rise to a flurry of rumors. Whether you considered the rumors of divorce or murder to be more scandalous was dependent largely upon whether you attended mass or church on Sunday. Miss Cassidy rented herself a room in the boarding house and never again mentioned her erstwhile husband. She lived comfortably off the income from her mine and spent her days drinking in Moriarty's Saloon and shunning the advances of men willing to overlook her sordid past in order to acquire her considerable wealth.
Cass, "Plea for a Fallen Woman," Minifill
A/N: Boot River, Texas, is completely made up. The historical events referenced are not.
The city of Boot River, Texas, was not without its scandals. The most controversial of its two thousand residents was doubtless Miss Cassidy-her daddy had been a Texas Ranger before he got hisself killed in the Mexican War (no body had ever been recovered, and Miss Cassidy insisted that he was still alive, though she was quite happy to collect his pension). Her mother had been baptized into the Christian church for love of Miss Cassidy's father, though she had died of a fever sometime after her daughter's 16th birthday.
Miss Cassidy had her father's red hair and her mother's high cheekbones. She was what was euphemistically referred to as a 'prairie dove,' having eloped with a gold miner after her mother's death. No one saw neither hide nor hair of her for years, until the day she breezed back into town with a bare ring finger and the deed to a Californian gold mine.
Her unexpected homecoming gave rise to a flurry of rumors. Whether you considered the rumors of divorce or murder to be more scandalous was dependent largely upon whether you attended mass or church on Sunday. Miss Cassidy rented herself a room in the boarding house and never again mentioned her erstwhile husband. She lived comfortably off the income from her mine and spent her days drinking in Moriarty's Saloon and shunning the advances of men willing to overlook her sordid past in order to acquire her considerable wealth.