Ideas? Bunnies? Fluffy Tail-ends?

If you have any ideas for stories that are going nowhere, or you just plain don't want to write 'em up, this is your chance. Offer up your unwritten ideas, and see them magically become stories.

RosieAnnie, from which ep was that? I don't recall it but the boys would really have started early. Nevada gained statehood in 1864, and they'd have been about 11 and 13. Perhaps Soapy misspoke? But then, we know a lot of the history is a little off.   

Remuda, it's from "A Fistful of Diamonds." When Heyes and Curry are having scotch with Soapy, he says "If it weren't for you two, I'd be spending my old age in the Nevada penitentiary."

Bless you, RosieAnnie, for saying what episode that was from. I knew I heard it and was actually listening to a few episodes while doing paperwork.

That sentence would make a great fanfic!

Rosie Annie, you're plum full of great ideas! Thanks for the link. But for the climate and weather, which could also play significant parts in a story, the Yuma Territorial Prison sounds similar to the Wyoming Territorial Prison.

I've been to both prisons...as a visitor.      Residents of Yuma were not happy that he prison got running water (and maybe electricity, I don't recall offhand) before the rest of the city.  It was considered an enlightened place for its time.  Convicts were taught a trade and, I think, how to read if illiterate--there was a library funded by city residents--and when the bedbugs got too bad, the wooden beds were changed to metal ones.  The dark cell was in a separate wing and it was more like a cave than a cell.  The only bad thing--well, besides being locked up--was the heat in the summer, which regularly was over 100F.  The cells were small and had six men in them, so it would have been pretty stifling.  I was there in July and it was really, really hot.

There's one story idea I've thought about for a while, but it requires a lot of knowledge of Great Britain, particularly England, and I just don't have that. I'd like to see Heyes and Curry in England.

There's a couple thoughts running around on this. In the first, they've achieved amnesty, and they are visiting England, doing a lecture tour. Well, Heyes is doing the lecturing. People are very curious to meet them/hear them, and the tour is very successful. They are having a good time. However, somebody attempts to draw them into a crime. They eventually extricate themselves and prove their innocence, but they have to solve the crime themselves to do so.

Or, say they haven't achieved amnesty. They go to England and open a pub/bar based on the western saloon. They set it up to be an "authentic experience" for the Europeans fascinated by the west. Complications ensue. Those complications would depend on whether or not they were at risk of being arrested and deported to the U.S. Some of you clever Europeans who know the law would probably know the answer to that. If there was little risk of being deported to face trial -- if they were safe in England -- perhaps they live under their own names. Their notoriety makes their business even more popular. But it also puts them at risk. Old associates could find them. Or, Scotland Yard looks at them with a jaundiced eye -- once a crook, always a crook.

This is not something I'm ever going to write. But maybe one of you would have at it.

"Those complications would depend on whether or not they were at risk of being arrested and deported to the U.S."

Definitely at risk, more than risk, I'd say a certainty, to be arrested and deported. Law enforcement in England and in the US helped each other out. The Pinkertons also had European contacts, and made use of them.

Not to the direct point, but interesting:

Did you know Arthur Conan Doyle got the idea for Moriarity from Pinkerton? They shared an ocean voyage, and Pinkerton told Doyle all about an amazing American criminal, Adam Worth, who ran a criminal network. He was traced to England by the Pinkertons. I think he was eventually caught in France.

Interesting note about the criminal Adam Worth. Researched him and several others for my Bounty Jumper story because he was a notorious bounty jumper during the Civil War, sought after by the Pinkertons. Had no clue he was the inspiration for Moriarty.

I believe it was S.J. Smith--whoever wrote the Shirley stories--who did a story with Heyes and Curry in England as part of that series. Not sure where you can find it now, though, as it was on that site that was taken down some months ago.

Okay this is from Frankieasj's link of obsolete words...but please someone take this and run....

Gorgonize
Meaning: To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on someone.
Origin: Early 17th century
As in: Don’t look into his eyes. He’s so charismatic, you’ll be gorgonized.