Name: Margaret Browning
Sex: Female
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 102 lbs.
Hair color: Sandy brown
Eye Color: Brown
Age: 27
Profession: Aspiring Writer

Appearance: Maggie is slender with a healthy athletic physique (toned, not body builder muscular) with delicate features and an ivory complexion. For those that wonder about such things, she's fairly small chested but not flat. Maggie keeps up with the current fashions of the day though realistically she has to satisfy herself with the fashions from lower end shops rather than Macy's.

Qualities and Abilities: Maggie is a normal every day kind of woman who dreams of doing great things but is mired down in reality. She's generally sweet and kind, even a little naive. Her writing is good, too good for most pulp novels and not good enough (mostly due to lack of life experience) for the high brow literary circles and she hasn't the education or experience to be a reporter.

She's had a couple of articles published in ladies' magazines, but she's still waiting for that big break. Aside from writing, Maggie also plays piano very well. Due to tracking and hunting with her father when she was a girl, Maggie can take care of herself in rustic and dangerous environments. Climbing, boating, hunting, trapping, gutting and cooking fresh kill is second nature to her.

Weaknesses and Vices: Maggie has a dreadful fear of flying. She smokes and enjoys the occasional drink, though she has a low alcohol tolerance so she becomes inebriated easily. Maggie is a little too trusting and takes many things at face value. She's not stupid, however, and won't just blindly follow  anyone.

Languages Known: English and French

History:  Margaret Anne Browning was born February 10, 1898 in Bottineau, North Dakota to John and Agnes Browning, who died while Maggie was still an infant. John was a trapper.

The youngest of three, Maggie was raised primarily by her father's sister who came to live with John and the children after Agnes died. Aunt Prudence was a great influence in the young girl's life who taught her the gentlewoman's arts and crafts, sewing, cooking, playing piano, singing and religious texts. Prudy, as she was called, objected strenuously to John taking Maggie out with the boys but found that John wasn't to be dissuaded from making his girl “as tough as she was tender”.

While learning the trapping trade, a friend of her father's offered to take Maggie up in his biplane, to which she eagerly agreed. Once up in the air, the craft appeared to have difficulty and the engines cut out, sending them hurdling toward the earth at an alarming speed. Maggie was terrified and certain that they were about to die when the pilot re-engaged the engine and pulled out of the nosedive. It had been a joke but it was one that ensured a deep seated fear in the young girl, who has never gotten on a plane again.

Maggie started writing while in her early teens, detailing life as a trapper's daughter and submitting her stories to larger city papers and magazines where her stories were occasionally picked up as human interest pieces.  After finishing high school, Maggie was left at a cross roads in life, not wanting to marry one of the local boys and settle down but having no real direction to take her life in the rural setting of the North Dakota wilderness.

Maggie left with what savings she had and traveled, making it as far as Chicago before needing to find a job. The large city papers had no interest in a girl of hardly any age and little experience as a reporter. She ended up taking a job in an automat as a cashier near the railroad station.  While working there, she met up with the roguish Richard Maxwell Drake, a steamship captain from the south. She took up his offer to work as the activities director and self styled research gal for those looking for a little more local color.