So, Anachronism has been long set, the last stop of finer civilization, so to speak, it may be still rather rough around the edges. The town the drovers drive their cattle to - and where law and order can sometimes be a bit scarce for a few minutes.
Alkali Wells was an easy choice for my southwest town.
But I've hemmed and hawed about Cedar Creek and decided it wasn't going to work for me (wasn't their an ACW battle with such a name?). Thus I've been casting about and now I've settled on Lodgepole Creek as the name for my out-on-the-plains little bit of a rail boom town. It helps that their is a real lodgepole Creek and it does cross into the right states to suit me.
Naturally, the cavalry fort has to be named Fort Courage. The finer sort of you lot will know why.