After reading the story to try to understand the cover (or perhaps just using the Search Inside to avoid reading the story) I can confidently state that that is supposed to be a *Fire Chief* helmet, not a cowboy helmet. A cowboy helmet is easily differentiated because it has a star on it.
A “fire chief” is most often a rank in a municipal fire department and you’d think that by the time a place is ordered enough to have a municipal fire department (and to have the resources to give him a pretty helmet) it would be kind of hard to consider it the “frontier.”
seaturtles
7 years ago
is it about sweet frontier cowboys engaging in gladiatorial combat with mail order brides in the flaming ruins of an old plantation house?
because you don’t have to tell me if it isn’t, i can just dream.
The house looks to me like a modern interpretation of a late 19th century Queen Anne style Victorian. Otherwise, I like your synopsis. The only question is, who gets to wear the helmet, the cowboys or the brides? Maybe that’s what the fight is about.
I found a match for that helmet “Antiques – – French late 19th Century Brass Fire Helmet”.
The “Mail Order Brides” genre maintains its consistency in period- and locale-correctness – not.
(American fire helmets of the frontier period are leather or pressed beaver fur with a fire-retardant finish)
After reading the story to try to understand the cover (or perhaps just using the Search Inside to avoid reading the story) I can confidently state that that is supposed to be a *Fire Chief* helmet, not a cowboy helmet. A cowboy helmet is easily differentiated because it has a star on it.
A “fire chief” is most often a rank in a municipal fire department and you’d think that by the time a place is ordered enough to have a municipal fire department (and to have the resources to give him a pretty helmet) it would be kind of hard to consider it the “frontier.”
is it about sweet frontier cowboys engaging in gladiatorial combat with mail order brides in the flaming ruins of an old plantation house?
because you don’t have to tell me if it isn’t, i can just dream.
The house looks to me like a modern interpretation of a late 19th century Queen Anne style Victorian. Otherwise, I like your synopsis. The only question is, who gets to wear the helmet, the cowboys or the brides? Maybe that’s what the fight is about.
i knew i probably had the style of the house wrong, but ahh well.
yeah, it’s a battle for the most glorious helmet in the land! i mean, i’d certainly prefer it to the odd thing she’s wearing.
Well now I’m interested.
She seems remarkably calm considering her hat is on fire.
There’s a “hot fashion” joke there somewhere.
I found a match for that helmet “Antiques – – French late 19th Century Brass Fire Helmet”.
The “Mail Order Brides” genre maintains its consistency in period- and locale-correctness – not.
(American fire helmets of the frontier period are leather or pressed beaver fur with a fire-retardant finish)