Utah

Connections

• Bloody Cal Johnson bragged from prison that this state had been forced to call in the great Marshal Cassidy just to bring him down

Context

Cassidy would have been 20 years old at the time of Bloody Cal Johnson's prison brag, which makes the year 1847 or 1848. This marks another slight temporal difference compared to our world because before Utah became a state in 1896, it was the Utah Territory...starting in 1850. Before that, it was pert of an unorganized territory. Along with present-day Utah, the Utah Territory covered most of present-day Nevada, and snippets of present-day Colorado and Wyoming.

There was actually some dispute over what the state of Utah would be called. the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at the time (sometimes referred to as the Mormon pioneers) made a proposal in 1849 for the State of Deseret, which would have been much larger than what the Utah Territory became. This ambitious proposal led to Congress' counter proposal (and enactment) of the creation of the Utah Territory.

It is unlikely that Blue Mammoth Games considered these intricate timeline details when creating Cassidy's lore. If the wanted poster was dated just a few years later, it would work perfectly with real world history. But, I'm satisfied with allowing for these time differences for a world that is confirmed to have vampires, magic, and werewolves.

So when Bloody Cal talked about Utah, he was likely talking about the territory, assuming we can accept territory being created a few years early in this fantastical version of Earth.