Play a legendary gambler in their senior years, for a take worth more than dinero…your youth!
You’ve been drawn to this place, Roughluck Falls, deep in the Spear Fish Canyon. As you near the destination pulling at your soul, you meet other ‘travelers’ all feeling the same unexplainable tug on your heart.
Around the canyon bend, old shacks and buildings, over grown by years of neglect haunt your way forward. Above the roar of a near by waterfall, a shadowy cacophony of laughter, taunts and even screams teases the edge of your ears.
Choose which old time gambler you want to play, and discover why, you’ve been drawn to this place, over the protest of the pains in your bones.
Black Ace : A Texas 300 original, retired Texas Ranger, rancher and forgotten famed gambler.
Feather Knife : A Cheyenne scout known for an eerie luck at cards.
Monty Blanc de Bleu : A New Orleans former slave and antebellum aristocrat, who epitomizes what a southern gentleman is.
Dr. Love : A Saw Bones, turned gambler, quit witted, and ‘loved’ by all.
Henning ‘Thor’ Erickson : A broad shouldered giant of a man, who’s brawn over brains hides a keen gamblers luck.
Madam Chan juan : A mysterious master of chi, with a notorious icy stare when the chips are down.
doña Tiana Álvarez y Sota : A sophisticated Mexican rancher. Renowned for her beauty, still, north and south of the Rio Grande.
This adventure takes place, near the Black Hills landmark, Roughlock Falls at the southern end of Spear Fish Canyon.
Rough Lock Falls and Spear Fish Canyon is a place where the Lakota Sioux wintered, protected on both sides from the harsh winds by high canyon walls. The final scene from the movie “Dances with wolves” was filmed just a short walk from here.
I’ve written this adventure for Expedition Deadwood 2021, in Deadwood, South Dakota, to celebrate 25 years of Deadlands! It’s also an opportunity to highlight an area that I was raised and spent more of my youth enjoying the wilderness and tales from my Lakota family and friends, and those of my Norwegian and Danish grand parents who helped settle the Dakota Territory.
