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Hanging Bonnie MacFarlane, Leigh Johnson
New Austin

Hanging Bonnie MacFarlane

Leigh Johnson

Mission giver
Leigh Johnson
Location
New Austin
Starts at
Armadillo
Ends at
Tumbleweed
Unlocked by
Not stated
Unlocks
The Assault on Fort Mercer

Player notes

John Marston enters the sheriff's office in Armadillo, where Marshal Leigh Johnson is with Drew MacFarlane. Bonnie MacFarlane has disappeared, and Drew holds John partly responsible. A man from Bill Williamson's gang arrives with word that Bonnie is their captive. The gang demands Norman Deek, who is held in the jail, in return for her. Drew urges John to help bring his daughter home.

Leigh and Deputy Jonah take Deek from his cell and place him on a horse. John rides with the lawmen and their prisoner across New Austin toward Tumbleweed, intending to make the exchange. At the town entrance, gang members meet them but open fire instead of releasing Bonnie. Deek is killed in the attack, leaving John, Leigh and Jonah to fight their way into Tumbleweed.

John pushes through the outlaws occupying the town and reaches the gate where Bonnie is being held. As the gang tightens its control of the area, Bonnie is left hanging from a rope. John clears the remaining kidnappers around the gallows and cuts her down. Bonnie survives the hanging, and the rescue ends in Tumbleweed.

Objectives

3 steps

In the order the game gives them. The unnumbered steps only appear if you go off script.

  1. 1Ride with the lawmen to Tumbleweed.
  2. 2Fight your way to Bonnie.
  3. 3Cut Bonnie down from the gallows.

Gallery

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Screenshots from Hanging Bonnie MacFarlane, mirrored from Red Dead Wiki.

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Trivia

  • โ—†A sequence similar to this mission appears in the 1968 Clint Eastwood western classic, Hang 'Em High.
  • โ—†Even though Norman Deek is hanging upside down on deputy Jonah's shoulder, his hat doesn't fall off. This is the same as when he's hogtied on the horse.
  • โ—†Once the mission is over, you can go back to the entrance to Tumbleweed where Deek was shot and the rope bonds he was tied up with will be floating in mid-air or on the ground nearby.
  • โ—†It's possible to follow Bonnie and the Marshal when they ride off. As soon as the Mission ends, Immediately get on a horse and simply follow them. The Marshal will dismount with Bonnie at a small camp near Del Lobo Rock. You can't hurt, interact, or frighten either NPC. This may be the only way to view the wounded Bonnie model again. It is possible to kill the horse and hogtie Bonnie or the Marshal.
  • โ—†It's possible to complete "A Gentle Drive With Friends" before this mission, and thus John should know about Tumbleweed, but even if this is the case, John will still ask Johnson about Tumbleweed, as if he never knew of it.
  • โ—†Oddly, the sound of the horse at the start of the mission sounds different to NPC's horses and your horse. This might be due to the horse being motion-captured and having live audio recorded.
  • โ—†The mission is very similar to the Red Dead Online story mission "The Hanging Of Tom Davies," in which the Del Lobo Gang take over Tumbleweed and hangs Marshal Tom Davies to avenge their leader's death. The players have to save him by shooting the rope that he is being hung by. A slight difference between these missions is that in Red Dead Online there are proper gallows that are only seen in that mission, while Bonnie is hanged from the frame of a gate.
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Last verified September 14, 2026