Territorial character archive / 1882
Behind the portrait.
Chancy McCord runs the Quarter Note, a longstanding establishment on the quieter end of Front Street. By the opening of Coldwater Pass, her business has occupied its corner for six years.
Chancy keeps order inside her walls, pays her taxes, and understands exactly how far official approval extends in a town with complicated ideas about what it needs. Jesse and Chancy know where they stand with one another, and neither requires many speeches about it.
The Quarter Note is more than a business address. It is one of the places where the town’s public life meets the private lives of its residents.