Go west, young man! — Horace Greeley
Towns pop up frequently in the Savage West. Miners, farmers, pioneers, snake-oil salesmen, pilgrims, outlaws, soldiers and many more individuals make their homes among the mesas and fields of the American frontier. As the Manifest Destiny pushes the boundary of the American frontier all the way to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, communities of all sizes surface in the wake of expansion.
Not every settlement grows to be a Salt Lake City or a Los Angeles, however. Many towns are hardly more than collections of shanties centered around local mines or groups of subsistence farms sharing the same creek. Pestilence, violence, loneliness and starvation threaten many of these small towns, and mere survival is often a daily struggle.
In some places, even these trials aren’t enough. The Storm Eater’s presence has weakened the Gauntlet in many parts of the Savage West, placing the physical world much closer to the spiritual realms. In fact, in an unprecedented series of phenomena, the Storm Eater is believed to have actually eroded the harrier between the Low Umbra and the physical world: the Shroud.
American Garou, both European and Native, are concerned about this never-before-seen curiosity. As most werewolves typically leave the Low Umbra to itself, its recent proximity has become an issue in the Savage West. More so than ever before, the ghostly denizens of that morbid realm have come into contact with beings on the living side of the Shroud.
Useful References
Ghost Towns is a crossover hook, and it assumes some familiarity with Wraith: The Oblivion on the Storyteller’s part. That familiarity is not necessary, however; Storytellers may successfully “fake it” with the information presented in Frontier Secrets, or they may wish to make it up whole cloth.
Some of the characters in this book are mean bastards — Dark Reflections: Spectres may come in handy (some characters’ Traits are referenced in that volume). Likewise, there are a few walking dead poking around these pages, and I’m not talking vampires: You may wish to take a look at The Risen to get a handle on these folks.

Related posts:

1. Frontier Secrets