Just played this with some internet friends who all share a love of folk music, and we had a really good time! We started out with a sibling pair of Gold Rush-era highway robbers who had a dispute while steering a fleeing stagecoach, resulting in the sister sending her brother to his (likely) death in a river below.
We tracked the ballad into the vaudeville era, seeing how different performers reshaped it into everything from a cautionary tale about sibling rivalry to a gruesome ghost story to a commentary on gender. In one of the face card ending scenes, we even pulled all the way into the present day and explored how a YouTuber tracked the source of a modern cryptid back to the ballad and the ghost stories it inspired.
This is a fun and creative game premise that's fairly easy to set up and play with minimal time and tools - thank you for writing and sharing it!