Josiah Granger

Name: Josiah Granger
Seeming: Wizened
Kith: Oracle
Born: October 25, 1890
Taken: July 4, 1915
Returned: October 25th, 2011
Personal time elapsed: 5 years
History:
Born in Virginia City, Nevada, Josiah "Josie" Granger was raised to be a hard worker, and an honest man. At 12, he hired on to a cattle drive as a cook, and worked his way up to being a hand. When he turned 18, he was hired on full time at the Sand Stone Ranch after dealing with a rustler who had tried to get hired on. On a beautiful Fourth of July night while he was contemplating settling down with a young lady he'd met on a drive to Boulder City, his Keeper kidnapped him because she wanted a cowboy. Over the next five years, she left him on an open plain and ignored him almost completely. The exception was when she decided to add something to her Western collection. Sometimes it was making a plant or river, and sometimes it was a new "guest."
After the first year of watching the plains and open sky as well as playing cards with himself, he learned to know when she was coming by the lay of the cards. The second year, he finally got his Colt Peacemaker to work. The third year, he thought of ways to get back to the Sand Stone Ranch, but couldn't quite remember the way, and made friends with the "Indians" that the Keeper had added to her collection. The fourth year, one of the "townspeople" tried to have him lynched, saying it was all his fault. The fifth year, a girl who knew the way home befriended him, and he decided to follow her, but not until after taking the one thing that the Keeper prized most: Her collection.
He and the girl, who's name he can no longer remember clearly led the townspeople, Indians, and even the cattle and animals back. As they drove on, the animals started to become more like people, while the changes the Keeper had made started to become more obvious to all. Many panicked as their lanterns and tools became people, and then they heard the Keeper's hound being loosed on their tails. Josiah and the girl were separated then, just as they were about to escape out of the Hedge. Josiah, confused by what he saw when he left the Hedge started to wander again, eventually getting to Las Vegas. He's been searching for the girl to make sure she's safe, as well as a woman with no face he's seen in the cards, as well as in his visions of the future.