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Don't come to Hades County. Don't come for the silver, don't come for the money. Don't come to drive the cattle or settle the land. Don't come for the adventure or the opportunity or the women. Don't come to Hades County unless you done gone been to real Hell already. Even then, don't come to Hades County.
History and geography of Hades County
Battles of the Dogtown Navy
The gangs and people of Hades County
Other helpful llinks
WANTED in Hades County
The Ralph Benslow Four; Ralph Benslow, Mack Roberts, Richard and Robert Sitzman
$500 for Ralph Benslow
$300 for Mack Roberts
$200 each for Richard and Robert Sitzman
$50 for each confederate caught in the gang's employ
Dead or alive. Railroad offers bonus of $1,000 for deaths of all four.
Wanted for the crimes of murder, horse thieving, train robbery, bank robbery, and general disturbing of the peace. Gang known to travel the Saddlerock trail to and from Omaha.
Beware: Gang's numbers known to increase and decrease on a whim. Count them before you shoot at them.
$500 for Ralph Benslow
$300 for Mack Roberts
$200 each for Richard and Robert Sitzman
$50 for each confederate caught in the gang's employ
Dead or alive. Railroad offers bonus of $1,000 for deaths of all four.
Wanted for the crimes of murder, horse thieving, train robbery, bank robbery, and general disturbing of the peace. Gang known to travel the Saddlerock trail to and from Omaha.
Beware: Gang's numbers known to increase and decrease on a whim. Count them before you shoot at them.
WANTED in Hades County
Montague "Manny" Raies
$500 plus $100 from families of the victims
Montague, aka Manny Raies is wanted in Hades County for the killings of seven miners in their camp at the Janaidar mine.
Manny is a pistolier of the deadliest sort and is heeled for hellfire with two top rail Colts.
Manny can be found with younger brother, Gillaume, and father, Bartholomew in most parts here north.
$500 plus $100 from families of the victims
Montague, aka Manny Raies is wanted in Hades County for the killings of seven miners in their camp at the Janaidar mine.
Manny is a pistolier of the deadliest sort and is heeled for hellfire with two top rail Colts.
Manny can be found with younger brother, Gillaume, and father, Bartholomew in most parts here north.
WANTED in Hades County
Enrico Juan Valesquez aka Ben Enrique aka Enrique Arma aka Ten Dollar Benjamin Henry
Dead: $200
Alive: $500
Just the head: $100
Accomplice to the Cesar Gang out of Dirt County.
For crimes against our local populace including, but not limited to: Kidnapping, murder, rape, horse thieving, disturbance of the peace, cattle rustling, and lynching without a proper permit.
Founder of Hades County
Col. James Middleton Saddlerock as seen in 1850, soon after the founding of the town of Saddlerock, county seat of Hades County.
The story of our founder
Colonel James Middleton Saddlerock was born December 23, 1815, in New Amsterdam, New York, to silversmith Winston Faust Saddlerock and his wife, Helen Agartha Fairfax.
Saddlerock enlisted in the military at 15 years of age. He served first with the 2nd New Amsterdam (N.A.) militia artillery and then as a trooper in the 9th N.A. Dragoons where he distinguished himself in action during the Later Hickory Campaign of 1836 against the Honnisont indian tribe. He quickly rose to the rank of Lieutenant during the war.
After the Hickory Campaign, Saddlerock was promoted to the rank of Captain. He married the daughter of a family friend, Mary Thessaly Jewell, who bore Saddlerock three good boys, William James in 1837, Harold Grogan in 1838 and Jonathan Munn in 1840.
Saddlerock was sent to patrol the Monterrey border in 1841. He was promoted to Colonel in 1842 and given the command of the 12th N.A. Dragoons. He was then handed the mission of riding north along the western faces of the Big Rock Mountains to explore what secrets these lands might hold. Col. Saddlerock took his 300 Dragoons along with 43 members of three survey teams, and three indian scouts to begin his mission.
After his mission was completed, Col. Saddlerock returned to Fort Grande near the Monterrey Border just in time for the beginning of the Monterrey War of 1846. He distinguished himself in action and was wounded twice. The first wound was from a minieball he took in his left side just under his ribs. The second wound was a saber cut to his right arm. The cut greatly reduced the use of his arm, and cut short his military career.
With the Monterrey War almost to an end, and no obligations to the military, Saddlerock decided to settle down on a large parcel of land he himself had seen in Hades County.
In 1848, he brought his wife and three sons to Hades County. They lived on a ranch Saddlerock co-owned with a 12th N.A. comrade of his, Captain John Roland. Saddlerock quickly tired of ranching life and moved his family north where he and other pioneers founded the town of Saddlerock in 1850.
In 1860, the War out East broke out between the Federals and the Secessionists. Saddlerock's sons, all went to fight for the Federals. The sons fought together with the 4th Topeka Cavalry along the Jayhawk frontier, where William was killed in action in 1862. Soon after, back in Hades County, Saddlerock's beloved Mary died of Brucellosis.
In 1865, Harold (wounded in action) and Jonathan returned to Hades County to settle down. Harold bought land to run his own ranch, and Jonathan lives in Saddlerock where he is a freighter with the Weston Freight Company that had been founded by his father soon after the end of the War out East.
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