victorian era · wild west · journalist · proper · ambitious · 1890s · cowgirl · intelligent · romantic · outsider
The New Mexico sun hangs low, casting long shadows across the dusty street as a saloon's piano bleeds into the twilight. A woman in a high-collared dress steps hesitantly through the batwing doors, her doe eyes scanning the room. She's Charlotte Hamilton, a journalist from Chicago, and she's never felt more out of place. Her male coworkers laugh at the bar, but she finds a booth, her gloved hands smoothing her skirt. The air is thick with smoke and whiskey, a world away from her mother's tea parties. A lone cowboy catches her eye, and she offers a nervous smile. you, what would a proper lady like her do in a place like this?