- Role
- Primary
- Nickname
- Speed
- Profession
- Lawman / Speculator / Mine Owner
- Birthdate
- 05/20/1841
- Relationship Status
- Single
- Playby
- Anson Mount
- Height
- 5'8
- Build
- Medium
- Hair Color
- Brown
- Eye Color
- Blue
- Physical Description
Pale blue eyes. Brown hair now worn long to the shoulders. Henry decided it was easier than trying to locate a barber on his trek from New York west. Traveling by horseback across the country, a man cleans up as best he can. When in town he would certainly make use of baths and having what clothing he had washed or brushed. Long gone are the city clothes he started out in. Along the way, he replaced these things with the sturdier clothing of the frontier. Mostly nondescript. He maintains a suit of clothes appropriate for business dealings. He is quite particular in his appearance.
- Reputation
Character Traits
- Even-tempered (+): Henry remains even-tempered, even after four years of the carnage of the war.
- Slow to Anger (+): He is slow to anger, yet quick to respond in a situation where there appears to be little or choice.
- Morally ambiguous about killing (-/+): He has little concern about taking life when presented with a life or death situation.
- PTSD (-): He has times where he is consumed by his war experiences, what would be considered PTSD in this day and age, but not in 1875.
General Personality
Henry Speed Guyer, Henry or Speed, he answers to either would not always be a mining speculator. He could be a schoolmaster, and he could easily be a gun hand or lawman. He is generally even-tempered, neither sullen or jubilant but easy going or firm depending. Not easily backed down, he would support law and order.
- Employment Details
Current Employment
Town Marshal $120.00 per month, most has quietly gone to local charities.
Wood & Guyer Mining Company New York with Nolan K. Wood.
Position: Co-Owner, receives a monthly stipend of $1,000.00 for business expenses, plus a twenty-five percent commission.Owns the Copper Queen and the Raven Copper Mines.
- Expertise
Professional Skills
Geologist: Henry is a speculator, hunting mineral deposits for Wood & Guyer Mining. Tasked with locating, negotiating and reporting to the home office.
Expertise
Self Defense: Henry carries an 1872 conversion pistol, with a second pistol in his saddlebags. A Winchester repeating rifle all chambered in .44. An above average shot with either pistol or rifle. Experienced hand to hand combat. Average or better fist fighter. Henry has fought both hostile Indians and desperados in his travels.
Hobbies & Interests: Geology.
- Kith & Kin
Family
Father: Henry Speed Guyer, born: 15-November 1797 Death: 5 November 1854
Mother: Jane Guyer born: 15 November 1787 Death: 14 December 1863
Brother: Edward Guyer born 1817.
Sister: Margaret Guyer born1815
- Timeline
May 20, 1838: Born to Jane and Henry S. Guyer, the third of three children.
1840~1860: Student/clerk in the family store Guyers Mercantile, Pisgah Missouri
1844~1861: Primary , secondary and college education. Pisgah school and Kean University.
1861~1865: War Between the States. Commissioned a 1st Lieutenant Army of the Potomac, 13th Regiment New Jersey Infantry, F troop. Saw every major campaign from Antietam to Gettysburg.
1866~1869: Formed Wood and Guyer Mineral Company locating and purchasing clams.
1869: Headed west to speculate on mineral deposits.
1875: Arrives in Kalispell, MT
1876: Reunited with Alice Fletcher and becomes engaged.
- Character Notes
Eduction Details
1846 - 1858: Pisgah school
1860-1861: Kean University, Union & Hillside New Jersey (2 semesters in teaching)
1861~1865: The education of men at their best and at that their worst.
1869~1875: Life on the plains. Tracking, concealment, campsite selection and foraging.
Languages Spoken: English
Animals & Pets
Horse and pack mule.
- Written By
- Flip