{"dataset":"RDR1 Gangs and Factions","game":"rdr1","section":"gangs","source":"https://outlawdb.com/en/rdr1/gangs","license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"},"attribution":"Data from outlawdb (https://outlawdb.com/en/rdr1/gangs), derived from Red Dead Wiki, CC BY-SA 3.0.","generated":"2026-09-26T14:08:57.960Z","count":14,"rows":[{"slug":"banditos","name":"Banditos","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Banditos","trivia":["Even with the Bandito Outfit equipped, the Banditos at Fort Mercer will still attack Marston because the only way to get in the fort is to walk towards Leon Galindo who will boost the player onto some crates.","When the player wears the Bandito Outfit, the gang will not assist the player in a fight. The same goes for Walton's Gang and the Bollard Twins Gang.","The Banditos do not appear in Undead Nightmare.","However, one Bandito, Mateo Clisante, can be encountered as a Bruiser.","The Banditos at Tesoro Azul in Free Roam will not fire upon the player if they enter the hideout without shooting, but they will become hostile when provoked. This also goes for the rebels at Nosalida.","In the Chuparosa Cantina, a small posse of Banditos can always be found drinking at the table inside the cantina. Curiously, Mateo Clisante and Yago Alejandres are the two Banditos who will never spawn there. However, they will still spawn at Casa Madrugada, where Alejandres may even partake in a game of Liar's Dice.","If the player bumps into any Bandito in the said cantina, making them stand up or if they wait until the Banditos finish their drinks, assuming they're not drunk enough to stumble, they will perform odd jobs around Chuparosa, including tending the marketplace, entering the bank to speak with the teller, speaking with a shopkeeper or taking a leak behind the cantina.","Oddly, Sergio Abelda and Benito Penagarza will never spawn at the Casa Madrugada cantina, but all of the other Banditos will."],"members":["Arcadio Gamboa","Benito Penagarza","Cesar Higueras","Cristo Bustamante","Mateo Clisante","Rafael Jaspeado","Ramiro de la Torre","Sergio Abelda","Yago Alejandres"],"locations":["Nuevo Paraíso","Río Bravo"],"memberCount":9},{"slug":"blackwater-police-department","name":"Blackwater Police Department","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Blackwater_Police_Department","leaders":["Oswald Dunbar (Chief of Police)"],"members":["Arthur Shodlow","Bernard Weaver","Edwin Jeffers","Eli Tucker","Morgan Sterling"],"locations":["Great Plains and Tall Trees regions","West Elizabeth"],"affiliations":["Bureau of Investigation","U.S. Marshals"],"memberCount":5},{"slug":"bollard-twins-gang","name":"Bollard Twins gang","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Bollard_Twins_gang","trivia":["The Bollard Twins Gang are based on the Cochise County Cowboys, also known simply as \"The Cowboys\", from the 1993 film Tombstone. Members of the gang can be identified by their characteristic bright red bandanas. In the movie, \"The Cowboys\" wear red sashes around their waists, and in both the film and in real life, the gang dedicated to the theft of cattle and horses. The Rustlers, the Bollard Twins Gang multiplayer counterpart, are named in reference to this.","Ike and Willie Bollard are both inspired by Ike and Billy Clanton, known associates of the Cochise County Cowboys.","The Banditos and several Unaffiliated criminals wear a red kerchief similar to those worn by the Bollard's Twins gang.","Visiting Thieves' Landing immediately after visiting the Pike's Basin hideout will result in the gang's member becoming hostile towards Marston.","Even if the player has the Bollard Twins Outfit equipped when they enter Pike's Basin and they don't kill anyone there, they will still be fired upon by the gang once they enter Thieves' Landing.","Some members of the Bollard Twins gang are reused to serve as members of the Williamson gang in missions such as \"Spare the Rod, Spoil the Bandit\".","In Red Dead Redemption 2, Pike's Basin is empty while exploring New Austin, indicating that the Bollard Twins gang wasn't active until after the game's epilogue section."],"leaders":["Ike Bollard","Willie Bollard"],"members":["Charlie Mash","Gus Ballard","Harry Dobbing","Irvin Pennick","Julius Grimes","Maurice Sweet","Pinky Wilson","Slink Bradshaw","Werner Cobb"],"locations":["New Austin"],"memberCount":9},{"slug":"bureau-of-investigation","name":"Bureau of Investigation","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Bureau_of_Investigation","trivia":["Before 1908, the U.S. Department of Justice had no organized institution or group of investigators to gather intelligence. The Department of Justice hired Secret Service agents and private investigators, possibly from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. However, Congress became critical of this approach of having a secret service department in every bureau. On July 26, 1908, Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte created the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935.","Oddly, the journal entry for the mission \"Remember My Family\" refers to the Bureau of Investigation as the FBI.","Various NPCs, most notably Drew MacFarlane, can sometimes be heard grumbling about the growing encroachment of bodies, such as the Bureau of Investigation and its actions towards the populace."],"leaders":["Edgar Ross (1907-1913)"],"members":["Archer Fordham (agent)","Howard Sawicki (agent)"],"locations":["United States"],"affiliations":["United States Government"],"memberCount":2},{"slug":"dutchs-gang","name":"Dutch's Gang","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Dutch's_Gang","trivia":["According to Nastas, many of the members of Dutch's gang attended schools and learned English, likely refering to the the many Indian reform schools that were present in the United States throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.","Some members of Dutch's gang wear pieces of military uniform, most notably coats and ammo belts. These coats oftentimes have chevrons on them.","Dutch's gang is one of two gangs in the game to not offer an outfit to be worn by the player, the other being the Williamson gang.","Dutch's gang seems to have a vast variety of tribal backgrounds that include Choctaw, Nez Perce, Navajo, and Apache.","Like the Unaffiliated criminals in Mexico, Dutch's Gang are never encountered in Free Roam multiplayer.","Speaking of unaffiliated criminals, Granville Berry can many times be seen assisting Dutch's gang when in random encounters, suggesting he could be loosely allied to them.","In single player, Dutch's Gang is the only gang not to own a gang hideout that can be completed outside a mission.","Dutch's Gang does not appear during Undead Nightmare. Their hideout, Cochinay, is occupied by an Unaffiliated criminal, Melvin Spinney. They also do not appear either as survivors or Undead.","The Native Americans of the gang mostly wear moccasin boots. Al Wolfscreed, Honovi, and Kosumi are the only members to wear a different kind of boot. Wolfscreed and Honovi wear regular boots with the top rolled or folded down. Kosumi wears some sort of soft looking boot with a round toe."],"leaders":["Dutch van der Linde (?(after 1907)-1911)"],"members":["Dakota","Enepay","Hassun","Helaku","Hinto","Honovi","Kohana","Kosumi","Nashoba","Al Wolfscreed"],"locations":["Fortress of Cochinay in Tall Trees","State of West Elizabeth"],"affiliations":["Native Americans"],"memberCount":10},{"slug":"marston-family","name":"Marston family","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Marston_family","trivia":["Every member of the Marston Family excluding Uncle and Rufus killed most of Red Dead Redemption's Main Villains.","John Marston killed Micah Bell, Dutch van der Linde (indirectly), Bill Williamson, Javier Escuella, Cleet (all three optional) and Joe.","Abigail Marston killed Agent Milton.","Jack Marston killed Edgar Ross."],"members":["John Marston","Abigail Marston","Jack Marston","Uncle (Not biologically related)","Rufus (Family Dog)"],"locations":["Scotland (formerly)","Beecher's Hope"],"memberCount":5},{"slug":"mexican-army","name":"Mexican Army","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Mexican_Army","trivia":["In real life, the Mexican Army is famous for having been the first army to adopt and use a semi-automatic rifle (the Mondragón rifle) in 1899, and the first to issue semi-automatic weapons as standard issue, in 1908. However, no such weapons appear in-game.","The name of the army in real life at the time of the game's events was the Federal Army.","If the player has completed the mission \"An Appointed Time\" and has a bounty exceeding $1000, they will receive a pop-up message reading: \"The Mexican Army has found your trail\", similar to how the U.S. Marshals work when the player is in America.","After the Mexican Army betrays John Marston, they will return to neutral and will not attack the player unless a crime is committed.","Before their defeat, Mexican soldiers can often be seen committing summary executions on back trails of Mexico.","In multiplayer, if players commit a crime in Cochinay, the Mexican Army comes. This is presumably a glitch.","The Mexican Army and Reyes' Rebels experience a complete role reversal in the game. At the beginning, the Mexican Army and the Federales are the authority in Nuevo Paraíso with the Rebels in hiding. By the end, the Rebels become the law enforcement in Mexico with the Army now in the hiding, notably in Torquemada and El Matadero.","The appearance of undead Mexican Army soldiers in \"A Civilized Man\" marks the only time in Undead Nightmare where such undead Mexican Army soldiers can be seen."],"leaders":["Francisco Ramirez Torres (1876-?)","Ignacio Sanchez (1910-1911)"],"members":["Agustin Allende","Vincente de Santa","Espinoza","Raul Zubieta","Javier Diego"],"locations":["Nuevo Paraíso"],"affiliations":["Secretariat of National Defense","Mexican Armed Forces"],"memberCount":5},{"slug":"reyes-rebels","name":"Reyes' Rebels","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Reyes'_Rebels","trivia":["Reyes' Rebels are treated as gang members. When the player shoots one of them, Honor is not lost, but instead gained, like with all the other outlaws. Also, when killed silently, like with a tomahawk or a Hunting Knife, nothing happens, even after the completion of \"An Appointed Time\". When a fistfight occurs, rebels will come to help their fellow members, like all other gangs.","When Nosalida is completed and the player goes to Escalera or Chuparosa, any lawmen in the vicinity will shoot at any rebels they can find, starting a small shootout.","It's the only gang in the game to feature more than one female gang member.","If Marston commits a crime, he'll gain a bounty with the only difference being the rebels will come after him instead of the Mexican Lawmen.","The group uses Nosalida as a gang hideout, even after the revolution and the player must still help out the Mexican Army.","After completing \"An Appointed Time\", the bodies of the Federales in the \"Wounded Lawman\" world event are replaced by those belonging to Reyes' Rebels. However, the surviving lawman remains as a member of the Federales.","Similar to most criminal characters and the U.S. Marshals, Reyes' Rebels never respond to the player back when greeted. In contrast, most of the Mexican soldiers always greet back despite being considered the bigger antagonists in the game.","Reyes' Rebels are rarely seen in Undead Nightmare, despite Abraham Reyes still having defeated Colonel Allende and taken power in Nuevo Paraíso prior to the events of the DLC. The Mexican Army and Federales are instead more commonly seen as survivors in random encounters and most settlements, and are protecting the El Presidio safe zone. The most notable role played by Reyes' Rebels is during the El Presidio Missing Souls missions, where a trio of rebels will meet Marston outside the fort to receive the missing person."],"leaders":["Abraham Reyes"],"members":["Victor Melendez","Luisa Fortuna","Tito Valdezate","Sergio Turrieta","Reinaldo Sigales","Chico Renovales","Benicio Olivares","Eva Valentin","Rosario Landeros","Remedios Jurado"],"locations":["Nuevo Paraíso","Nosalida","Agave Viejo","Escalera"],"memberCount":10},{"slug":"treasure-hunters-gang","name":"Treasure Hunters gang","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Treasure_Hunters_gang","trivia":["Some of the Treasure Hunter's outfits bear a resemblance to the outfit Henry Moon wore while mining for gold in the 1978 film, Goin' South.","Unlike most other gangs, the Treasure Hunters gang appear to also partake in non-criminal activities. If the player enters Gaptooth Breach while wearing the Treasure Hunter Outfit, they can witness gang members going about their daily work prospecting and mining the rock for ores.","The Treasure Hunters will appear in the Gaptooth Breach hideout before completion of the mission Man is Born Unto Trouble, and will not act aggressively towards Marston. However, the player needs to have completed most of the storyline missions up to this point before they will spawn.","The Treasure Hunter's Gang is the only gang in New Austin, who has an unknown leader.","Stanley Mund and Fletch Hillard are the only gang members in singleplayer that do not appear at Gaptooth Breach after the mission Man is Born Unto Trouble.","Digby Haskins and Stanley Mund are the only obese gang members of The Treasure Hunters.","The member who uses Guy Percival's character model in the singleplayer is the one that has the Springfield Rifle, during the Gaptooth Breach hideout."],"members":["Clark Hatfield","Digby Haskins","Fletch Hillard","Harlan Forbes","Lester Dugan","Mickey Brunson","Roscoe Duffy","Stanley Mund","Wade Bassett"],"locations":["Gaptooth Breach in Gaptooth Ridge","State of New Austin"],"memberCount":9},{"slug":"u-s-lawmen","name":"U.S. Lawmen","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/U.S._Lawmen","trivia":["U.S. Lawmen wear two types of badges depending on what position they hold. The first is in the shape of a silver star with five branches and has the word \"posse\" written on it, indicating that the wearer is a deputy. The other is in the shape of a gold star with six branches and the word \"sheriff\" on it, indicating that the wearer is a sheriff.","Both groups have twelve members each."],"members":["Sheriff Bartlett","Sheriff O'Grady","Alden Pearce","Alden Renshaw","Benton Manning","Blake Kingston","Buford Ackley","Claude Banfield","Clay Brannon","Dell Hopkins","Duke Grayson","Elton Woolsey","Hank Bellamy","Hugh Leathers","Isaac Larch","Jessie Hargrove","Lee Brennand","Macy Wayman","Mel Thaxton","Monroe Carver","Nash Stringer","Rigby Daniels","Shelton Cole","Vern Timmons","Waylon Myles","Wesley Hubbard","Curtis Malloy","Sheriff Jones","Hanley","Vernon Farley","Sam Freeman","Leigh Gray","Harmon Thomas","Archibald MacGregor","Benjamin Lambert","Oswald Dunbar"],"locations":["United States"],"affiliations":["Bureau of Investigation","United States Army","U.S. Marshals"],"memberCount":36},{"slug":"u-s-marshals","name":"U.S. Marshals","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/U.S._Marshals","members":["Leigh Johnson (1897-1914)","Bert Leverick","Earl Hollingsworth","Guy Crossfield","Isaac McKinnon","Marion Freel","Randolph Knox","Slim Grant","Tom Davies"],"locations":["United States"],"affiliations":["United States Army","Pinkerton National Detective Agency","Bureau of Investigation"],"memberCount":9},{"slug":"united-states-army","name":"United States Army","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_Army","trivia":["The \"General Boden\" mentioned by Buffalo Soldier in Red Dead Revolver could be a nod to General Imboden, a real army general during the American Civil War who commanded an irregular cavalry force.","Albeit, John D. Imboden was part of the Confederacy, not the Union, but knowing Rockstar's crude sense of humor, it is likely that this detail could have been intentional.","The uniforms of the U.S. Army and the Mexican Army in Red Dead Redemption are similar, but with some notable differences: the U.S. Army uniforms are khaki in color and well maintained, while the Mexican Army uniforms are mostly grey in color, well worn, loose, and poorly maintained.","The use of the Bolt Action Rifle by the U.S. Army in 1911 is anachronistic, as the Springfield M1903 rifle had replaced the Krag–Jørgensen rifle in service. However, it might be possible that the U.S. Army is seen in Red Dead Redemption still uses Krag–Jørgensens because they are clearly not a front-line unit, or even National Guard, which by 1911 had not been fully re-equipped with the M1903.","The use of the Lancaster Repeater by the U.S. Army in 1899 is also anachronistic, as the service rifle at the time was the Krag–Jørgensen.","Dutch van der Linde's father fought for the U.S. Army in the American Civil War but was killed in what is implied to be the Battle of Gettysburg.","U.S Army Soldiers in 1899 and 1907 appear to wear a wide variety of uniforms with some wearing a modified version of the Blue M1898 Officer's Field Service Blouse with shoulder tabs in the place of an officer's shoulder straps, whilst others wear what appears to be an amalgamated M1884 Brown Duck Canvas tunic that has shoulder tabs and pockets of the M1899 Khaki Cotton Tunic. Additionally other soldiers wear the tropical service M1898 Khaki Field Blouse with Blue or Yellow shoulder tabs signifying them to be part of the infantry or cavalry. Some soldiers wear the M1883 Campaign shirt instead of a blouse while others wear a regulation blue chambray shirt.","A wide array of trousers are also used by U.S Army Soldiers in 1899 and 1907 with M1885 blue and M1898 khaki tropical service regulation trousers along with some non regulation khaki trousers. Some soldiers have black stripes of their trousers, possibly intended to be indicative of that of a noncommissioned officer or officer but the color black was the stripe color for noncommissioned officers of the U.S Army Signal Corps from 1891 to 1902, not the Cavalry or Infantry depicted in RDR2 which would’ve been yellow or white.","The usage of Blue Tunics in 1907 is also anachronistic as the U.S Army's General Order No. 81 in 1902 had eliminated Blue as a color for service dress, being replaced by Olive Drab and Khaki. In 1903 U.S Army Engineers and U.S Artillery serving in the U.S were authorized to wear the blue service dress until stocks were exhausted with Field Artillery and Engineers in the U.S receiving new uniforms in 1904. Soldiers of the U.S Coast Artillery Corps serving in the U.S would in some cases wear blue service uniforms for winter until 1908; neither such case would apply to troops stationed at Fort Wallace in 1907.","The usage of the Montana Peak campaign hats in 1899 and 1907 is anachronistic as soldiers in 1899 and 1907 would have worn the M1883/1889 pattern felt campaign hat. The Montana Peak design was not formally adopted until 1911."],"leaders":["President Hardin (formerly)","President Fisher (formerly)","President Alfred MacAlister (formerly)","President Thaddeus Waxman"],"members":["Buffalo Soldier","Griffon","Henry Favours","Sherman M. Rhodes","Ronald Alger","Jackson","Cody Hixon","Samson's Partner","Sheriff Bartlett (formerly)","Bill Williamson (formerly)","Kieran Duffy (formerly)","Lyndon Monroe (formerly)","Hamish Sinclair (formerly)","Hayden Russell (formerly)","J. John Weathers (formerly)","JB Cripps (formerly)","Sergio Vincenza (formerly)","Samson Finch (formerly)","Felix Hawley (formerly)"],"locations":["United States","Fort Wallace","Fort Diego (formerly)","Fort Brennand (formerly)","Fort Mercer (formerly)","Fort Riggs (formerly)"],"affiliations":["U.S. Marshals","Bureau of Investigation"],"memberCount":19},{"slug":"waltons-gang","name":"Walton's gang","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Walton's_gang","leaders":["Walton Lowe (?-1911)"],"members":["Alfie Scruggs","Cody Witlow","Cooper Reed","Dale Chesson","Link Huston","Mo van Barr","Perry Rose","Rufus Higbee","Woody Swenson"],"locations":["New Austin"],"memberCount":9},{"slug":"williamson-gang","name":"Williamson gang","status":"verified","wikiUrl":"https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Williamson_gang","trivia":["Although the Williamson gang is portrayed as a major criminal organization in the state of New Austin while also being the driving force behind the first chapter of Red Dead Redemption, the gang itself does not actually exist outside of the missions they are featured in. Unlike most other hostile factions in the game, the Williamson gang lack a dedicated outfit for the player to wear, they do not have any bounty targets that can be hunted down, they do not control a gang hideout that can be cleared outside of a mission, and there does not exist of any unique NPCs representing the gang that can be encountered by the player outside of the missions they appear in.","The Williamson gang's main base of operations is Fort Mercer, however even before the gang is wiped out in \"The Assault on Fort Mercer\", the Banditos occupy the Fort as they would when it becomes available as a gang hideout, despite the Williamson gang still being active at this point.","Outside of the mission \"Spare the Rod, Spoil the Bandit\" which only includes the Bollard Twins gang models, the Williamson gang is primarily made up of unaffiliated criminals. Many of the outlaws encountered alongside Williamson are also bounties. During \"The Assault on Fort Mercer\", Harry Dobbing and Irvin Pennick make another appearance.","Unlike most gangs, the Williamson gang doesn't offer the player an outfit, most likely because Bill’s gang doesn’t have a set uniform.","It shares this trait with Dutch's Gang.","In a random camp event in Red Dead Redemption 2, Bill Williamson mentions his desire to be the leader of his own gang one day, foreshadowing the creation of the Williamson gang."],"leaders":["Bill Williamson","Norman Deek (second-in-command)"],"members":["Seth Briars (formerly)","Outlaw on Horse"],"locations":["Fort Mercer in Río Bravo","State of New Austin"],"memberCount":2}]}