Born in 1853 into a wealthy family in New York City, Courtney Krieger was beauty to behold. She was schooled in the finest finishing schools and was well educated. Her beauty and background made her a very sought after woman especially among the upper social class. However she had a wild spirit that would not be tamed seeking excitement and adventure that just couldn't be found in the cities of the eastern United States. So it was that on her 18th birthday she and her parents came to an agreement, Courtney would travel the country for a year and then return home to settle down and live the life that society and her parents expected of her. She traveled by train and then be stagecoach across the "wild west" and quickly became enamored with cowboys and shooting. Courtney settled for a few months in the town of Tombstone and learned to shoot from Doc Holliday (during one of his brief seperations from "Big Nose Kate"). She had a natural talent for shooting especially pistols and became one of the fastest female guns in the west though she never once participated in a shootout. When her year was up she returned home as she had promised but not to live the life her parents wanted. Instead she announced her intentions to join one of the many burgeoning wild west shows, showcasing her talents with a pistol. Disappointed but content that she had chosen a path, her parents relented and Courtney became one of the most famous gunslingers in the country. She became so popular that pulp novelists of the time fought over the rights to her life story and her face soon graced the covers of no less than a dozen different pulp novels describing her "adventures" leading her friends to give her the nickname "Cover Girl". Eventually her talents and fame brought her to the attention of Buffalo Bill Cody and he made her an offer to join his show. Cody paired Courtney up with Calamity Jane and called their precision shooting act the "Dualing Dames". Courtney traveled the world with Cody's show and eventually retired to her family's home in New York City in the early 1900's.