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Author: Tipper
Disclaimer: Own nothing and no one.
Parts: Six (Complete)
Note 1: July Challenge answer
offered by KT. Cross Mag
7 with another western. I'm a recent
(very recent) Bonanza fan, and I've only seen bits of two seasons, so I
apologize in advance to real fans of the show if I don't get it quite right,
but I'm already obsessed with Bonanza and can't help myself.
Note 2: Just a timing note. Now, fans of Mag 7
know very well that our time line is…flexible.
The Seven lived in a time warp that had nothing to do with real time,
and, in fact, couldn't exist (real history was somewhat thinly applied). However, it's certain it takes place sometime
between 1865 and, well, 1890 (cute, eh?).
Bonanza, on the other hand, has a very definite time line. The first episodes take place around 1859
and, of course, it lasted fourteen years, with Adam disappearing somewhere
around "1865" since he left after six seasons. Needless to say, that doesn't work for a
crossover. I want all four Cartwrights. So, I'm taking a lesson from the Mag7 guide
to history (i.e. ignoring it completely) and creating a timeline where the
Central Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad are being built at
the same time (as opposed to about fifteen years apart—but hey, it's the same
people doing it), and where it's about 1866 or so. (On a sidenote, the
Mag7 town also has no real setting. It
is both a day's ride from the Mexico border and a day's ride from where Chinese
laborers are building the Central Pacific.
Considering the two are a thousand or more miles apart, obviously,
location is also, as noted…flexible. So,
I'm pretending that, although Ezra said the Central Pacific in the episode
Chinatown, what he meant was that the Southern Pacific, which was being
financed by the Big Four of the Central Pacific, and Four Corners is somewhere
inside the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.)
Dedication: To the Round Up
Girls, and our single file horseback ride, nose to butt, as the first part of
this story came from that memory.
Description: Ezra, Josiah, Chris
and Vin are in California, running for their lives…and Josiah from a noose.
Outnumbered, outgunned and without back-up, the four men are trying to get
across the border into Nevada and to safety the quickest way they can…through
the Ponderosa. As you might guess, the four Cartwrights are less than pleased.
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