Cally Andrews

On the trail from St Joseph Missouri to parts west, a stagecoach bearing a banker and his family was ambushed by a gang of thieves. The only survivor - the banker's daughter, Cally, who was off fetching some water at the time of the attack. What neither Cally nor the authorities knew was that her father was originally in league with the thieves who killed them. They pulled a bank job, but MacDermont ran off with the money. The thieves, led by a man named Cooper, tracked him down and shot him for the doublecross. But they didn't find the money.

Convinced that MacDermont's daughter had made off with the loot, Cooper began searching for her, and eventually tracked her to a little Montana town called Maddock. After failing to convince the authorities that Cally was a runaway and that he'd been sent by her folks to bring her home, he took more direct action before being shot dead by Deputy Mac Andrews. Safe from the outlaws, Cally gained employment as a freelance artist for the local paper.

Michael Elliot was the kind of man mothers warn their daughters about - handsome, charming, and entirely opposed to any kind of commitment. Unfortunately, Cally was young, lonely, and innocent, and she staked her future on the wrong man. When Michael ran off, leaving Cally in a delicate condition, she ended up marrying Mac. Mac raised her son, Jacob, as his own, and few were ever the wiser. Cally was killed by outlaws barely a year later.