At the peak of the gold rush in the middle of the 19th century, a man named Jakob Kinkle bought a small plot of land in the unexplored wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, with dreams of treasure and streets paved with gold. However, after many fruitless years, Jakob had to face the harsh reality that his river was barren. What he had in abundance though, was trees. Tons upon tons of malleable, brown gold. So he opened up a sawmill, selling ties to the new, booming railroad industry. His business was extremely successful, and after a few years a small town had grown up around the mill. Life was good, and Jakob built a papermill to feed the ever growing newspaper industry. The town was growing bigger every day.

As Jakob grew old, his son, Junior, inherited the wooden empire. Junior, an enthusiastic and entrepreneurial spirit, had even bigger plans. Inspired by the railway that passed through the town, he was set on starting his own railroad empire. “Speed is the key” he was heard saying, again and again. Determined not to be set back by the technological encumbrance of the time, the speed would be achieved by pulling the train up a steep hill, and releasing it at the top, letting gravity do the rest. Junior diverted all wood production into the construction of his prototype. This proved to be a disaster for the local economy, as the project claimed every piece of wood in the area, bankrupting the sawmill and the papermill. The situation was worsened by Juniors insistence that, to save on real estate costs, the prototype would be built through the town, instead of the surrounding countryside. He built it straight through the sawmill and the docks next to it. Not even the stone watchtower built by the spanish conquistadors was spared. But the townspeople had had enough. As construction of the prototype tore through the walls of the Palace of Leisure, the now unemployed and very angry citizens rebelled, and dethroned the lunatic.
To everyone's surprise however, all was not lost. Even though useless as a railway, Juniors prototype proved to be a magnet for thrill seeking travelers. Realizing the potential of this new form of tourism, the citizens capitalized on the uniqueness of the prototype, and re-established the town as a tourist attraction. This made the town, and all the people in, very wealthy, and years later it is now widely known as a positively regarded theme park. It is rumored that when the town commissioned Arrow Dynamics to build their new coaster, the contract included this paragraph: “Do whatever the **** you want. Build it through the papermill. Build it through the ****ing town hall. We dont care anymore, just make it cool”

The only thing that now remains of Junior, is the gallows in the town square he was hanged on, left as a, somewhat ironic, monument to the evils of capitalism.