Nate Trotter

Nate Trotter is a rancher from Diamondback. He arrived in the town in the 1850s, while heading back from the California gold fields — he had heard about John Brown, the killings in Kansas and the likelihood of war, and chose to wait there for things to cool off back East. By the time the conflict ended, Nate Trotter had been in Diamondback for more than a decade and was settled. He fell in love with a Yunni woman called Mesa, and the two lived as husband and wife, earning them the scorn of both societies. Mesa died from fever sometime before 1880.