Grizzlies West

Grizzlies West is a fictional large region located across the western part of Ambarino, U.S.A.. It was initially a constituent region by the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century, but eventually turned into a county by the 21st Century.
== Description ==
Grizzlies West, known as Grizzlies West County by 2017, is one of the two known constituent regions in the southwestern state of Ambarino. It is home to the famous Grizzly Mountain Range that stretches north from the Redemption Mountains into North Elizabeth.
It is presumed that Grizzlies West extends further west, but it is not confirmed. The only town that is known to be located within the region is Colter, an old mining town which remained abandoned for almost a century, since 1884, but later re-founded again before 1945.
== Geography ==
Grizzlies West has the highest elevation across the depicted southwest. To the south are cold forests with a few ponds, crevices, ravines, and cliffs. But further north are the Grizzly Mountains, which are always covered in snow, even into the summer months. Every river and lake in northern Grizzlies West is frozen solid and the snow swallows most of any ruin.
Grizzlies West is believed to resemble the real-life U.S. states of Wyoming, Colorado, and parts of Montana and Idaho. However, it seems to closely resemble the Rocky Mountains of those states.
== Biography ==
=== 1880 ===
Around this time, Jonathan “Jon” Wallace, known also as “Snake Hunts”, was born en route to the Wapiti Indian Reservation in Grizzlies East, though whether he was born in Grizzlies West or East remains unclear.
=== C. 1884 ===
The mining town of Colter was founded, but it was eventually abandoned due to the harsh snowstorms.
=== C. 1898 ===
Jake and Sadie Adler were happily married and lived on a ranch far north into the snowy mountains.
=== 1899 ===
After the failed Blackwater ferry job, the Van der Gang fled into the Grizzlies, but despite it only being May at the time, the mountains were suffering a harsh snow storm. The gang made it to Colter, but member Jenny Kirk died en route, and another member, Davey Callander died shortly after arriving.
The gang spent a few days in the town waiting for the storm to pass. After robbing a train belonging to Leviticus Cornwall and killed some members of the O’Driscoll Boys, the gang finally took their chance at the storm dying down and moved southeast into the New Hanover Heartlands.
=== 1907 ===
Eight years after the Van der Linde gang’s downfall, former member turned rat, Micah Bell III, established his hideout atop Mount Hagen with Dutch Van der Linde. Former members John Marston, Sadie Adler, and Charles Smith, traveled to the mountain to confront and kill Micah for his treachery. Although Sadie and Charles were wounded, they survived and John went on to kill Micah. In the end, Dutch helped John do so after realizing what he really did years ago. John collected the Blackwater money Micah finally found and took as much as he could carry before he carried a wounded Sadie away. After Dutch’s departure, the trio left the mountaintop and returned home to West Elizabeth.
Days later, Federal bureau agents Edgar Ross and Archer Fordham discovered Bell’s body and after a lot of tracking, finally found out John was involved.
=== 1908 ===
Around this time, Jon had returned from hiding in Mexico and relocated to the remote wilderness of Ambarino. He met a woman named Helen in an unseen town in western Ambarino and after an encounter, the two conceived their first son, Samuel. The two married as a result and settled on an abandoned homestead Jon bought in the eastern part of the region. Their family grew up there.
=== 1932 ===
Jon and a fellow hunter, Fred, traveled into the snowy mountains to track and hunt game, with Sam staying behind to look after the ranch. Unfortunately, Jon and Fred tried to take shelter from the cold inside a cabin at Barrow Lagoon, only for the two to be ambushed by former Seventh Generation cultists turned rogues, who wanted revenge for the death of their leader, “Shepherd” Virgil Edwards, 27 years back. Fred is shot in the head and Jon is hacked to death with machetes. Sam discovered the bodies soon after and took them back to the Wallace homestead to be buried.
Sam left home to track down and kill his father’s killers.
=== 1935 ===
Sam returned to his homestead one last time to say goodbye and retrieve his belongings before moving east towards Liberty City.
=== C. 1945 ===
Colter was re-established as a renovated town built to last. The region was also turned into a county rather than a region.
=== 1988 ===
Calvin Rook, a descendant of Jon and his second born son, Hagen Wallace, was born in Colter on May 3.
=== 2017 ===
The town was taken over by the Neo-Confederacy. The town was liberated by Rook after he returned.
== Locations ==
* Adler Ranch/Grizzlies Ski Resort
* Barrow Lagoon
* Colter
* Chez Porter/The Wallace Homestead
* Lake Isabella
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* By 2017, the town was renovated. By where the former Adler Ranch was, a new ski resort was built in its stead to bring tourists.