Classic: Old West

GURPS Old West

GURPS Classic: Old West allows role playing in the American Old West

Life on the Frontier

Reference Maps in book: 1800-1810; 1811-1822; 1823-1860 (appears in The Wars section) and 1861-1900

Characters

• Advantages, disadvantages, and skills
• Money

Transportation

• Overland (Major Overland Trails)

Major Overland Trails, US

Trails West

• Railroads

Major US Railways 1889-1890

Sleeper-Parlor Car

Combine Car

Private Car

Indians

• Map: Indian Tribes and Their Territories
• Plains Indians, Southwestern Desert Tribes, Great Basin, Indians of the Northwest, and Eastern and Southern Tribes
• Indian Magic

The Wars

• The War of 1812
• The Mexican War
• Civil War; Map - The United States: 1822-1854
• The Indian Wars
• Range Wars

Legends of the Old West

Many of the famous people, places, and events of the old west.

• People: Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, Jesse James, The Wild Bunch, Kit Carson, and Hanging Judge Parker
• Cities: San Fransisco, Dodge City, and Bodie, California
• Events: Gunfight at the OK Corral, and Lincoln County War

Campaigning

• Backdrops and Adventure Seeds
• The Weird, Weird West
  • Classic: Deadlands - Weird West
• Mountain Men and Explorers
• Territorial Wars
• Wagon Trains
• Campaign Crossovers
• ’Twas a Miner
• Clash of Cultures
• Workin’ on the Railroad
• Riding the Range
• Outlaws
• Shootin’ Up the Town

Critters

A references table to the major animals encountered in the Old West.

Additional Material

• Badlands: An Adventure for GURPS Old West (11/24/2000)

• Weapons of GURPS Old West (1830 to 1917) - Classic weapons converted to 4e by Curtis Handsaker (Z09SS)
• Weapons of World War I (1870 to 1918) - Classic weapons converted to 4e by Curtis Handsaker (Z09SS)
• Captain Randolph B. Marcy, U. S. Army. (1859) The Prairie Traveler. A Hand-Book For Overland Expeditions; 1861 edition
• Corruption and the Transcontinental Railroad - example of corruption, fraud, waste, and mismanagement that is, sadly, still a factor in government-corporate deals.
• The Civil War - "the Web's most extensive source of original Civil War resources. Has more then 7,000 pages including Harper's Weekly newspapers from the Civil War."
• Thomas' Legion: The 69th North Carolina Regiment - despite the name it has what is called the American Civil War Homepage which "allows students the opportunity to research the Civil War by subject, category, and topic, the Civil War Homepage also presents the war's history for each state" as well as a Indian Territory History page with highly detailed maps
• Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes, and Processes (1907, 1912, 1913, 1914): "Con­tain­ing ten thous­and se­lec­ted house­hold and work­shop form­u­las, rec­i­pes, pro­ces­ses and mon­ey-sav­ing meth­ods for the prac­ti­cal use of man­u­fact­ur­ers, mech­an­ics, house­keep­ers and home work­ers"
• The Edward T. LeBlanc Dime Novel Bibliography - "aims to create a comprehensive online database of dime novels, story papers, reprint libraries and related materials"
• Western section of AMC filmsite
• The Frontier american illustrated news is "an American West Publication that does more than just tell the stories of our frontier past. It acknowledges that the story goes on and you are now part  of it."

Wikis

• GURPS Westward Bound Wiki

Videos

• History Summarized: Buffalo Bill's Wild West
• History Summarized: The Wild West
• History Summarized: Old West Outlaws

Library of Congress

• 1839: Map of the United States of North America with parts of the adjacent countries - clicking on the map takes you to the actual document which is so detailed that even the names of various small towns are given.
• 1840: Map of the canals & rail roads of the United States, reduced from the large map of the U.S.; engraved by J. Knight
• 1854: Colton's illustrated & embellished steel plate map of the world on Mercator's projection : compiled from the latest & most authentic sources exhibiting the recent Arctic and Antarctic discoveries & explorations
• 1861: Lloyd's American railroad map

ISOT threads or Ideas

• A Golden Island To The West — California ISOT from 2018 to 1850 (Sufficient Velocity forums)