Fort Tipton was a week of hard riding, west of the Capital. It was the last outpost before you left the territory and went into the unmapped Indian lands between here and California. The fort was built in response to the need to protect miners and settlers, after the big silver strike ten years ago.
Once word of the strike reached back east, settlers flocked to Fort Tipton. Soon a town sprung up a few miles from the fort, at a natural spring and was quickly a true wild west hot spot. The military took full advantage of the town of Fort Tipton. The saloons provided everything a frontier's man or lonely solider could want. Dance hall women, gambling and whiskey. The settlers who followed the miners, quickly found out the only water outside the natural springs in or at the fort was too deep for wells and the soil was less than fertile. They moved on as quickly as they had moved in, leaving the God forsaken waste land surrounding Fort Tipton to the gamblers, cattlemen and Indians.