This room is illuminated by windows set in the east wall, which are arranged to appear to be windows of small store-front facades lined up to make the walls appear to line the main street of some old western boom town, with wooden boardwalks and hitching posts. There are fake doors that don't open, leading to the Jail, Sheriff's Office, Bank, Saloon, Barber Shop, and other locations. Positioned here and there along the faux street front are wax statues of famous western personages ... some of whom have a very dubious claim to being "heroes": Wyatt Earp, Joaquin Murrietta, Bat Masterson, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, "Wild" Bill Hickok, "One-Eye" Hank Ketcham, "Doc" Holliday, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid. There are also some dummies of heroes that never were: Pecos Bill (represented as a normal-sized man, not the giant of legend) and Slue-Foot Sue, Paul Bunyan (minus Babe the Blue Ox, perhaps for lack of space) and John Henry. There's even a statue of a mysterious looking fellow known as the "Revenant", though he's easily missed in the corner. (Cognition check against TN of 7 to spot him, unless someone else has pointed him out first.)

Plaques near each dummy explain the name of the person, sometimes accompanied with painting prints or even copies of old photos, with blurbs about the who and where and what for about each personage.

The dummies are decked out in appropriate costumes, though the guns are obviously fakes. Fairly real-looking weapons (or occasionally replicas) can be seen in a glassed-in case at one end, with a wide spectrum of vintage weapons, and some examples of the progress of gunpowder weapons in the old west ... running from black powder weapons such as flintlocks and matchlocks, up to the cap and ball, and finally to more conventional bullets. Near each of the dummies are a few display cases that show some artifacts associated with them. Some of the weapons might be serviceable, but even what little ammunition is in the display is probably only simulated (for safety purposes), and the best of these weapons are single-action revolvers, not machine pistols ... and the worst are black powder weapons that would take excruciatingly long to reload. (On the flip side, some survivors do actually use black powder weapons these days, for hunting. A benefit is that it's not too terribly difficult to make your own ammunition, and you can save bullets for the monsters and road gangs.)

For example, near Hank Ketcham is a case that holds a gatling pistol "just like the kind that 'One-Eye' Hank Ketcham once used", and an eyepatch that "might have been" worn by Hank. A case near Calamity Jane includes a placard about a purported visit that she made to Montana, and an incident at an opera house where the performance was allegedly of poor quality. According to the story, Calamity Jane spit a wad of tobacco across the room and hit the star of the performance square on the forehead, then started shooting out lights and shot down a chandelier from the ceiling ... to the applause of the rest of the audience. Within the case is a lever-action rifle that the placard claims was confiscated from Calamity Jane after this particular incident.

Even the "tall tales" heroes get some artifacts. A plaque has some clippings from an old west newspaper known as the Tombstone Epitaph -- sort of the "National Inquirer" of the Weird West. The articles claim sightings of "tall tale" heroes come to life. In one story, there is an account of a remarkable woodsman that went by the name of Paul Bunyan, who performed several logging feats. When a fellow lumberjack picked a fight with him, he knocked the man's head clean off in a single punch, then left, never to be seen again. On display is an axe purportedly used by Bunyan before he stormed off. Similarly, there are two sledgehammers allegedly used by a real-life John Henry, one in each hand.

Lastly, there is a lariat that looks to have been made from the hide of a huge rattlesnake (twenty-five feet long, the placard claims), purportedly granted as a prize from "Pecos Bill" to a local (back in the 1880s) after a lasso contest in which "Pecos Bill" was bested by an amazingly talented 10-year old girl.

In terms of salvage, the dummies might be relieved of their costumes, yielding a few sets of very old and dusty clothing, some gunbelts, boots and bandoliers ... plus a few hats.

If someone takes the time to try to ransack this place for salvage, here is some of what they might find:

Of the items in the Hall of Heroes, a few have a little more to them than meets the eye. Most of them have no special ability, despite hints that they might have historical significance, but a few have some genuine potential as relics.

In case the Posse wants more details about the information they find on the displays in the Hall of Heroes, here are some links to some player handout information, spelling out in greater detail the exploits of the heroes on display. Only some of these may have any relevant information that could give clues on which items on display might have any special value, but it would have the effect of underscoring those particular items if only more detailed information were available on the "important" displays, and not the rest. Therefore, some extra information is provided for "fluff" and red herrings.