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Name: Elsie Anne Landens
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Likes: her 45 Colt revolver, swimming, galloping, cooking,
Dislikes: cleaning, sitting around a fire,
Hobbies: Most of her time is consumed by caring for her family's horses and livestock. If she has any free time she likes to try and read any book she can get her hands on.
Strengths: Survival skills like fire starting, finding or making shelter, hunting, and fishing
Weaknesses: Arachnophobia
Personality: Adventurous and willing to try anything. She doesn't trust people easily, but given enough time she becomes incredibly loyal and would do some crazy stuff to keep those she loves safe and happy. Around animals, she is very soft and careful. With people she doesn't know well, particularly temporary cowboys hired to help with cattle drives, she comes off as stern, a bit boring, and uninterested. She opens up a little better with persistence and offerings of gifts.
History: As the daughter of a pioneer rancher, she grew up riding and roping along with her brothers because, on small ranches, everyone helped with the cattle. She was born on their small homestead, along with her 3 older brothers. Her parents met on a cattle drive and were fortunate enough to build a place of their own. Elsie had learned everything she knew from her family. She never attended any school but had been taught how to read and write by her mother mostly. Her mother was not very involved in the farm chores, and instead spent most of her time indoors. Elsie began helping whenever she could around the age of four, preferring to tend to the chickens since she was bigger than they were. Around the age of ten, she had been allowed to start helping her brothers a little more with the cattle and that was when her love for horses really took off. She had pretty much claimed two of the horses as her own and nearly exclusively rode them until they were getting a little too old for the heavy riding she was doing. At the beginning of the year, she traded with another family and received a 3-year-old gelding named Tom that she intended to turn into her next main horse. She also had a current "main" horse, a 10-year-old mare that she mostly used for cattle drives and riding around for fun. All three of her brothers still live nearby, with families of their own. Elsie had remained at her parents' house as she felt safer there and hadn't found anyone to try and start a new life with.
Appearance:
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