ohhhhh “Dead Man’s Hand” is one of my top fav games!

This fort would work well for an old trail fort in the early days of the push out west, but had fallen into disuse and is now used by rustlers or a gang as a strong defendable out-of-the-way location. The law may have to track them down and then decide best how to storm the fort without becoming the latest members of the ‘Boothill Club!’

So when you say, “by commenting who the Voodoo Baron from Louisiana,” I’m assuming most folks are going to Google and going with the top hit. If that is what you’re after then Baron Samedi (French: Baron Saturday) also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi, or Bawon Sanmdi, is one of the loa of Haitian Vodou. Samedi is a loa of the dead, along with Baron’s numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, and Baron Kriminel. If so, there you go…….

But the book does not say, anywhere inside it, that Baron Samedi was the inspiration. So we may all be leaning on what the book ‘might’ have implied…..

The rulebook, “The Curse of Dead Man’s Hand”, does have stories in it talking about the possible identity of the Baron… these stories try to figure out the real identity of the Baron.

Excerpt #1……He’s no Baron, but he was a judge in South Carolina who wore a trademark top hat and long-tailed coat that he still wears now. Judge Elihu Bay……….(read the book for the whole excerpt)

Excerpt two……A plantation owner in Saint Dominque over one hundred years ago, The Baron was a French aristocrat called de Mezy………..(read the book for the whole excerpt)

Excerpt three…..The Baron was a Voodoo priest called Dutty Boukman who fought with Dessalines during the Haitian Revolution………..(read the book for the whole excerpt)

Expert four and five…….these stories are just vague encounters with mysterious folk that wore a top hat and coat and no name was given……

Of all the stories, the Dutty Boukman is “Google Interesting”. Here’s what Google says on Dutty Boukman…..
Dutty Boukman (Also known as “Boukman Dutty”) (died 7 November 1791) was an early leader of the Haitian Revolution, enslaved in Jamaica and later in Haiti. He is considered to have been both a leader of maroons and vodou hougan (priest). [3]

According to some contemporary accounts Boukman alongside Cécile Fatiman, a Vodou mambo, presided over the religious ceremony at Bois Caïman, in August 1791, that served as the catalyst to the 1791 slave revolt which is usually considered the beginning of the Haitian Revolution.

Boukman was a key leader of the slave revolt in the Le Cap‑Français region in the north of the colony. He was killed by the French planters and colonial troops in 7 November 1791[4][5], just a few months after the beginning of the uprising. The French then publicly displayed Boukman’s head in an attempt to dispel the aura of invincibility that Boukman had cultivated. The fact that French authorities had to do this illustrates the impact Boukman made on the views of Haitian people during this time.

Just my two cents whorth……