Deadlands USA

THE HISTORY IS NOT OUR OWN

  The Weird West of Deadlands is much like the Wild West of our own world, but with a few fantastic differences. The most notable of these is that the Civil War dragged on for far longer than it did in our history. Things escalated after the “Great Quake” of 1868. It sundered California into a maze of labyrinthine sea canyons and exposed a new superfuel called “ghost rock.” The infernal ore screeches like a banshee when burned, powering all sorts of newfangled gadgets and gizmos like steam wagons, auto-gyros, and more. This gave rise to new weapons of war the North and South just couldn’t help murdering each other with. The greatest and most terrible gathering of these deadly contraptions occurred at the epic and bloody Battle of Washington in 1871, where a desperate Northern victory finally ended the long and tragic Civil War.