Territorial character archive / 1882
Behind the portrait.
Cord Farris is twenty-three when Coldwater Pass begins. A farmer’s son from near Prescott, he came south looking for work and found a badge instead.
As Jesse’s deputy, he handles the practical parts of a small town’s lawkeeping and learns the hard distinction between what people ought to do and what they sometimes choose. Jesse values Cord’s belief that problems deserve reasonable solutions.
Cord is still early in his experience of the law. He brings a younger set of eyes to a town whose older residents believe they have seen most things before.