Abraham Keller

*"After being locked up and it taught me some things, one of these things being loyalty and how there is no loyalty amongst outlaws."* - Abraham to Emmet Duke

Abraham Keller was a prominent outlaw during the final days of outlaws and criminals, Abraham was a outlaw with his friends Emmet Duke and Martin Duke until a botched bank robbery where he would escape custody and would form his own crew called Keller's Gang.

## Biography

### Early Life

Abraham was born to parents that moved around a lot and were part Canadian as they moved from Canada down to the USA in hopes of making something of themselves after hearing about the gold rush, sadly his parents found no fortune which left them to work as miners in the town of Tallport which was a farming town in the state of West Chatley where his parents suffered a lot of medical problems such as bad breathing which eventually killed off his father and with no money coming in this would force his mother to sell herself out of desperation. By the time Abraham was 16 years of age he eventually left Tallport after his mother had been killed by a client she was with, Abraham had moved to the state of Weirdale where he had hoped to make his own way in life as an orphan.

#### Farming and Ranching

After his arrival in Weirdale would be met with the fresh air of the countryside and not a bustling smoke filled city like Tallport, Abraham made his way through the countryside coming across a small farm where he met some ranchers doing a regular days work. Abraham approached the men in hopes that they may give him a job, the two men looked at each other going inside the ranch house to which 5 minutes later an older man came out to speak to Abraham, after a long conversation the old man allowed Abraham a job being a regular farm hand helping out with smaller tasks not harder tasks as the man realised that Abraham was quite a young man. Abraham would work for a total year on the farm doing smaller tasks from the other ranch workers until he reached the age of 17 where he was now trusted enough to make deliveries to the farm town of Jericho on a wagon, Abraham was paid a little more and enjoyed his new work being more of a variety as he also made new friends and knew more people as he headed into the town.

#### Deadly Three

In the year of 1879 Abraham was now 18 and was starting to see his life become increasingly boring and his pay was turning for the worse as the farm he worked on didn't produce as much product as the other farms nearby did which decreased their demand, after Abraham had made one of his deliveries into town he would come across two men that he had never seen before constantly looking at the local bank to which he eventually caught on to what they were doing he would approach them asking bluntly how they were going to rob the bank he then proceeded to give them information without the men even knowing his name. The older man would then speak to him revealing his name being Martin Duke and the other man being his son Emmet Duke and then he proceeded to thank Abraham for this information to which Abraham responded about wanting a cut of the take, Martin only accepted him taking a cut if he actually joined them in robbing the bank to which Abraham accepted reluctantly. The three men would rob the bank quickly and efficiently and after Abraham would ask to stay with them as too many people knew him in Jericho and might click that he was in on robbing the bank, Martin didn't really trust him but allowed him anyway in case they may ever need him again, after this the trio became a famous group that robbed trains, banks and took on other illegal tasks and legal tasks.

#### Botched Bank

After the group's successful run for many years they would eventually plan to rob a city bank in Bandera, this job would be very different to any other robbery that the group had done as this was not a local bank but a highly protected bank, Martin had devised a plan but it wasn't good enough as there was only three of them to their surprise one of Martin's contacts, William Green, would offer them a fourth man who was looking for work by the name of Peter Conley who was a secret undercover federal agent that was provided by the government to protect railroad companies from outlaws that robbed them such as people like Martin. Peter devised a plan with the four to distract the city police whilst they rob the bank quickly, Martin wasn't struck on the plan but would agree to it and the four began their plan, the three waited for the distraction however Martin got nervous and so decided to rob the bank quickly to which it was going well until midway through the robbery the police would appear outside trapping the three in the bank. Martin would improvise by having him and Emmet leave through the side door climbing onto the rooftops whilst Abraham covered them and then they would cover Abraham whilst he climbed up to them, Abraham would go through with this plan until he was taken by the police and believed that Martin and Emmet had abandoned him.

#### 1898

After being arrested Abraham served one year in a city jail until the year 1889 where he was going to be hung however thanks to Peter Conley's interference he was moved to a penitentiary as Peter hoped to lure Emmet Duke out from hiding to come and get his friend, Abraham would then serve an extra two years in jail where he then was going to be transferred back to Bandera to be hung as Peter saw that his plan wasn't working, in the year of 1891 Abraham was being transferred back to Bandera to eventually be hung and killed however midway through his transfer his wagon would be attacked by a couple of bandits who where hoping to find new recruits to their gang to which they broke out Abraham and some other prisoners who were also being transferred. Abraham joined the crew who were planning on robbing a money wagon that was heavily protected and offered Abraham to be an extra gun and in return they wouldn't kill him, Abraham would be thrilled and instead of just accepting their offer he helped them cover every risk and caution that surrounded the job and would manage to secretly steal the route map from a nearby station that the wagon was starting from. Abraham carefully examined the map and the perfect spot to ambush the wagon, the job went ahead and the group would suffer no casualties and got a full take without alerting anyone as everyone that was guarding the wagon was dead, after seeing this the men decided to make Abraham their leader as they saw him to be very smart. Many years would pass and the gang made their name feared across West Chatley to which Abraham would mark as Keller's Gang territory scaring away any other gang or group.

Within the year of 1898 Abraham and his crew sought to expand their fear by moving into the state of Weirdale and hoped to expand their operations within the city of Bandera however Abraham would come across the Calderon Family who were a new crime family overseeing and practically owning the crime network throughout the city. Keller's Gang and the Calderon Family would ignite a war between each other which was short lived with the Calderons organising a sit down and hashed out terms so that no more blood could be shed on either side which they allowed Keller's men into the city to make deals but nothing else and they allowed them to own the countryside with towns such as Jericho and Cruxton, two neighbouring farm towns, Abraham would accept and then would proceed with business. A couple of months would pass and Abraham would find out through his contacts that Emmet Duke was still alive and had his own crew now moving into the state of Weirdale hoping to make money as they have done down south in the swamps, Abraham and his men would initially hunt down Emmet and his crew but find no trace of him until a member of Emmet's gang would find a small cabin with tents planted around it assuming it was the base that Abraham and his gang had been hiding in however instead of Abraham being inside the cabin it would be Willis Olson who was a lieutenant for Abraham in his gang. After capturing Willis Emmet found out that Abraham had captured William Green and was going to use him as a hostage to draw out Emmet to which this would occur however Abraham did not expect to see Willis in the hands of Emmet's gang. A shootout would occur with William safely with Emmet and Willis safely with Abraham, there would be no casualties on Emmet's side but Abraham lost many of his men as he fled the town of Jericho.

At a later date with little men left Abraham was tracked down by David Beck who was a US Marshal on the hunt for both Emmet Duke and Abraham, after being caught with all his men dead he was captured and later hung in the city of Bandera.