Naco

Naco is a boom mining town nestled in a narrow gulch in the northern part of the Crow Range in Kabranso Territory. A single street runs right down the center of town, there being no room for any others in the bottom of the narrow gulch. Houses rest precariously above the businesses on the hillsides on either side of the gulch. To the south of town the gulch widens and flattens out, and farmers have plowed fields. At the north end of town, the valley becomes more narrow, and the gulch deepens into a canyon.
In 1550, gold was found in Naco Gulch. The word leaked out, and the rush was on. Almost the entire population of Roughshot, a town 55 miles to the north on the Delcova River, moved to Naco overnight - nearly 7,000 people. By the end of the summer of 1551, the gulch's population swelled to around 20,000 people, most of whom were living in tents and ramshackle huts thrown together from any materials that could be found.
Naco is a wild and reckless town. Fortunes are made and squandered and then made again. Once a well-off miner scattered a sack of gold onto the main street, just to see people scramble for the metal. Many notorious individuals, such as Nolan Good, Marianne Cobb, Sid and Ned McLean, Hazel Wheeler, and Lori Lowe have lived here. Some of them even died here - violently - as did Good, who was shot in the back of the head while playing poker at the Grandstand Saloon.
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