I was just a boy when it started. The rumors. Talk of large, winged beasts, appearing across the Midwest. It was the least of my worries at that age. Finding my next meal took precedence. That is, until [main character’s role model] took me in. He gave me a purpose; taught me right from wrong. Now I know how that sounds coming from an outlaw, but we have a code.

It wasn’t until I was reaching adulthood, and leaving my adolescence, that the first true sightings began being publicized. They were showing up in newspapers everywhere.

I was 20 years of age when I saw my first one. By that point, word had spread of the destruction they were bringing across the country, and that destruction had spread beyond the northern and southern borders. Killing them was a challenge that plagued the nation. Short of firing canons off into the sky, little could take down one of the winged beasts. There was no shortage of hate and rage towards the creatures. So you can imagine by surprise when in two years time, I found myself riding on the back of one of these creatures- dragons.

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Set in the mid 1800s, the story follows a gang of outlaws in the American Wild West where dragons have been reawakened to the world. Mining activity has created countless chasms in mountains and caves alike from which dragons have breached and returned to the surface. Destruction spreads through the Americas, and to other continents. Now, rumor has spread across the American frontier of a tamed dragon.

((How to Train Your Dragon meets Reign of Fire in the Wild West Era))