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Angela Kitredge |
Somewhere near that point of junction Angela Kitregde lived as a kid. She was the daughter of Jason Loomis and Joyce but she first learned to know Jason when she was in her teens. She was raised by raised her mother and Virgil Kitredge. Virgil was a teacher. He died under suspicious circumstances in 1868 when Angela was ten or eleven. Angela had been a promising young lady, with her stepfather teaching her the things she aught to know and the things that were nice to know. She had an interest for the stars and spent hours looking at the galaxy. But the good and decent teacher had not been her real father. Her real father was an old lover of her mother, an outlaw and a troublemaker. He was out of the life of Joyce for eleven years, but not out of her heart. And it was his blood that flowed through her vanes, and it were partly his genes that made up her character.
A year after Virgil died, Angela and her mother left for Baltimore and there Angela learned to know Jason Loomis. He had a claim on an old gold mine. It consumed all their money, but didn't give any gold in return.
Gold has a number of fine qualities but is has its downsides too. It tends to disrupt peoples lifes. And even though the gold in the Baltimore mine never showed its shine surface to the daylight, it still showed its evil powers.
There were easier ways to obtain gold than digging for it. Angela turned into a gold haired cowgirl who had swapped the looking glass for the riffle. She learned the other use of dynamite and became a bandit. A bandit with a heart, but a bandit none less
