Emmet Duke

*"It was years ago Abraham, drop the gun and your boys don't need to die today we make peace here and now before you do something you regret."* -Emmet to Abraham Keller

Emmet Duke was a prominent outlaw during the years of the Wild West, he was commonly known to have ran a gang called Duke's Boys to which they became famous from being con artists, killers, robbers and mercenaries for many different people across the country.

## Biography

### Early Life

Emmet was born practically on the road in the year of 1860, as he was born his mother died at child birth which left his father, Martin Duke, to raise him up. For some time Martin had worked jobs like labour and dock work in nearby cities however this would not be enough to earn that would allow him to properly raise up his boy and so he would turn to illegal things as a way to make money, Martin at the time working in the docks of a city in the north would secretly travel to his boss' office where he would steal a lot of money in the small vault however he would be caught by the boss which prompted Martin to strangle him to death. Martin killing his first person would strangely not be shocked or phased by this however he knew he had to hide the body for the time being, to do this he buried the body outside of the city to buy him some time to get a little bit more money together. This time would not last as eventually Martin's boss would come up as a missing person and the local police force would be on the hunt for him which would then force both Martin and Emmet to once again leave to venture to somewhere new.

#### Young Beginnings

Around the year of 1879 Emmet was now 19 years of age and helped his father with work to which they came across a farming town where they would plan out to rob the small local bank, scouting out the bank Emmet met an 18 year old kid called Abraham Keller who lived in the town at the time as a farm hand to a nearby ranch. Abraham would actually help both Emmet and Martin by giving them times of when the deputies made their patrols and around what time of the day there were little to nobody inside the bank, Abraham providing them with this information wanted his own cut for his information but Martin would only give him his cut if he helped him and his son with the bank job itself. Abraham reluctantly agreed and would be given a Winchester repeater to help them, the bank job would commence with Emmet and Abraham acting as crowd control whilst Martin headed inside the bank with the manager accessing the vault. With the information provided by Abraham the bank was fairly empty of people and made crowd control quite easy, Martin was quite quick with the manager and managed to take quite a lot of money which they would then make their swift exit with nobody actually knowing who they were as they had their masks on their faces. With a successful bank job Martin offered Abraham to come with him and his son to make more money to which Abraham would accept seeing that he made a lot of money than he would working as a ranch hand.

#### Opportunities

In the early 1880's Martin Duke, Emmet Duke and Abraham Keller would be quite successful after their bank job they would become mercenaries for hire in a way as they did jobs for people both legal and illegal which turned out to be quite profitable for the trio, Martin made a solid contact in the form of William Green who was a influential man in the town of Jericho acting as a middle men having many contacts which he provided them to Martin and sold them to his friends as hard working mercenaries willing to do work of all sorts. With some of the illegal work that the trio did it would catch the scent of a young David Beck who was a young deputy hoping to prove himself to his superiors by capturing famed outlaws, around the year 1887 the trio would come across a man called Peter Conley who William Green had met similarly to how he met Martin and spoke to Martin about how Peter was searching for a crew to join up with and make more money to which Martin would allow him making the trio now into four men.

#### Botched Bank

The following year in 1888 the four men would plan to rob a bank within the city of Bandera to which the four men had planned out carefully on how they were going to rob the bank and with Peter Conley as the fourth man they would be able to rob this bank a little easier, unknown to the trio Peter was an undercover federal agent that the government had provided the railroad company to protect them from gangs like Martin as before this bank job the trio had robbed multiple trains. Leading up to the bank job Peter had provided this information to the local police force and had planned to set the trio up, Peter would be the man in the four to set up a distraction across the city which kept the police away from the bank that the trio had planned to rob. After a while waiting for the distraction that didn't happen Martin decided to just enter the bank and rob it with Emmet and Abraham, midway through their robbery the police force would be outside calling for them to surrender to which Martin came up with a plan to escape on the roof tops. Abraham would start firing at the police whilst Martin and Emmet made their way to the roof to which they began firing giving Abraham time to climb up, as Abraham started climbing he was grabbed by police and arrested or so Martin and Emmet thought, the two began running across the rooftops until Martin was ambushed and shot down by multiple cops leaving Emmet to try and escape. Emmet after a while waiting and mourning would change his clothes making himself out to be a labourer and escaped on the back of a wagon with no money from the job.

#### 1898

During the 10 year period from the bank job to the year 1898 Emmet made a new crew finding new members along the way in hopes of restoring his old wealth that he and his father had. After many months Emmet and his crew became famed for being one of the most deadliest gangs in the west with going to war with the likes of Tanner's Pack, the Calderon Family and Keller's Gang where they became victorious above all, however in the later months Emmet and his crew started to see a decline with some of the gang being arrested and some being killed in botched jobs or botches robberies. Eventually Emmet was left all alone and was hunted by Peter Conley who had hunted him all those years ago and Peter had managed to stop Emmet in a chase by shooting him in the leg to which he fell off his horse and was left on the ground in front of Peter to which Peter was about to kill him until he was shot from behind. The man called David Beck had shot Peter as he was after him for revenge for what Peter had done raising chaos in other states and having deputies killed in suicidal missions due to his ruthlessness which is why David decided to kill him. David made a deal with Emmet and told him to go straight and he wouldn't hunt him and would keep him off US records however if he didn't he would be forced to hunt him down, Emmet would agree to the deal and later in his life he raised a ranch in the south well away from his old life.