Colter, Ambarino

Colter was initially an old mining town between the 19th and 20th Centuries, turned rural residential mountain town by the 21st Century. The town is located in the deep mountains of Grizzlies West, Ambarino, U.S.A.. It is a fictional location featured in the Outlaw’s Saga.
== Description ==
Colter was an old mining town that was founded presumably in the 1870’s or 1880’s, but was abandoned by 1884 due to the harsh snowstorms, which is expected and common within the surrounding Grizzly Mountains.
The town consisted of a few bunk cabins, only two of which are intact, a mess hall, a dilapidated church, and a intact horse stable. It was situated alongside the Spider Gorge frozen river.
== Biography ==
=== 1884 ===
Colter was abandoned due to the harsh snow storms.
=== 1899 ===
After a massacre and failed ferry heist in Blackwater, West Elizabeth around May, the Van der Linde gang retreated from the Pinkertons into the Grizzly Mountains. Along the way, member Jenny Kirk succumbed to her gunshot wounds and presumably exhaustion and hypothermia. Arthur Morgan found the town for the gang, but when they finally arrived, another member, Davey Callander, who was also shot and wounded, finally succumbed to the wounds, exhaustion, and hypothermia shortly after arriving. His body was buried in the nearby snow-buried cemetery 
The gang waited out the storm for a few days, barely surviving, until there was finally a break in the storms and the gang fled southeast into the New Hanover Heartlands, abandoning the town.
=== 1900 ===
Jonathan “Jon” Wallace brought the Wolf Man’s body to Colter after killing him to turn him into the bounty wagon.
=== 1945 ===
By this time, Colter was finally reestablished. Every building was renovated and/or bulldozed and built over, and the town expanded. At some point in time, Hagen Wallace moved into the developed town for more work opportunities, where he started his own family and continued the Wallace bloodline.
=== 1988 ===
Calvin Rook, a descendant of Hagen’s, was born in Colter to his mother, who was initially a Wallace family member, and his father, who was a member of the local Rook family.
=== 2009 ===
Calvin, who excelled in the local police academy, attracted the attention of a New York police officer who was on his vacation. After being offered a job as a police officer in New York, Rook gratefully took it. Calvin moved sometime after.
=== 2017 ===
The Neo-Confederacy arrived in town and took it over by force. Rook, who was hunting the Neo-Confederate troops, while also being hunted by them all the way from New York, arrived and secured the town, the place where his life had begun. After ensuring every local was safe, Rook stayed for a day longer before leaving town again.
=== 2018 ===
Colter did not appear in 2018, but it is presumed that after Rook would be declared a criminal due to him disobeying government orders, he fled to Colter or some place further.
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* Colter was originally going to be where Jon would be murdered. However, since Jon’s farm is further south, it was decided that it would be moved to the Barrow Lagoon home further south.
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