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The Gunslinger's Tragedy, Landon Ricketts
Landon Ricketts

The Gunslinger's Tragedy

Landon Ricketts

Mission giver
Landon Ricketts
Location
Chuparosa
Starts at
Chuparosa
Ends at
Chuparosa
Unlocked by
We Shall Be Together in Paradise
Unlocks
Landon Ricketts Rides Again

Player notes

John Marston enters Chuparosa, where three banditos stop him and demand money. One takes John's hat and puts it on, while another orders him to surrender his boots. John shoots the men, recovers his hat and leaves their leader in the street. An elderly American who has watched the confrontation ridicules John's shooting. He introduces himself as Landon Ricketts, gives John a Schofield Revolver and offers to teach him a few things.

Ricketts has John use Dead-Eye against bottles, then startles a flock of vultures and makes him mark the birds in flight. As they head into Chuparosa, a bank employee rushes out with news that banditos have attacked the bank wagon. John and Ricketts ride out of town to find two gunmen guarding the wagon while a third holds its driver at gunpoint. They kill the guards, and John uses Dead-Eye to shoot the hostage-taker without harming the driver.

The driver asks John and Ricketts to bring the wagon safely back to Chuparosa. They escort it along the road until more banditos form a barricade ahead. John and Ricketts clear the roadblock, then lead the wagon into town. The townspeople gather around Ricketts and praise him as their savior, while John remains apart from the crowd in Chuparosa.

Objectives

5 steps

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

  1. 1Use Dead-Eye to tag and shoot three (3) bottles.
  2. 2Use Dead-Eye to tag and shoot at least two (2) birds.
  3. 3Stop the bank wagon robbery.
  4. 4Destroy the banditos' roadblock.
  5. 5Escort bank wagon into town.

Gallery

05

Screenshots from The Gunslinger's Tragedy, mirrored from Red Dead Wiki.

The Gunslinger's Tragedy (1/5)
The Gunslinger's Tragedy (2/5)
The Gunslinger's Tragedy (3/5)
The Gunslinger's Tragedy (4/5)
The Gunslinger's Tragedy (5/5)

Trivia

  • โ—†If John starts this mission in a hatless oufit (i.e. Gentleman's Attire) then much like in the missions "Wild Horses, Tamed Passions' and "The Burning" John will be rendered with his hat on it for the first cutscene. This time it happens because a peasant takes John's hat off of his head and puts it on his own, with John later taking it back forcefully. When the next cutscene starts John will be hatless again.
  • โ—†During the bottle-shooting part of the mission, you can shoot the bottle of a nearby drunk, who will proceed to shout in Spanish.
  • โ—†The title of this mission could be a reference to the Grand Theft Auto IV mission "A Revenger's Tragedy".
  • โ—†Avoid starting this mission near sundown; you'll find yourself trying to target the hostage-holding bandito with the setting sun right behind him, making him (and the hostage) extremely hard to see.
  • โ—†For some strange reason, John is able to fire his Cattleman Revolver in a double-action manner on this mission even though it is a single-action weapon. This does not apply if the player has the Volcanic Pistol equipped.
  • โ—†After John asks what Landon is waiting for in the second cutscene, Landon pauses before saying "I don't know..." with a watery eye. This could hint that he is somewhat afraid of death.
  • โ—†There is a somewhat rare glitch when John and Landon are walking to their horses, Landon will pull out his revolver and start shooting at the horses.
  • โ—†Landon Ricketts will occasionally use a Semi-automatic Pistol during this mission.
  • โ—†It is notable that the conversation that the peasants are having at the beginning of the cutscene while speaking in Spanish makes absolutely no sense. Incorrect tenses are used and synonyms of the same word are used immediately after the other. (See here for a rough translation.)
  • โ—†The apparent leader of the banditos, Simon, in the opening cutscene has a unique model that appears nowhere else in the game. The other two use the models of Geraldo Elisaldez and Mateo Clisante.
  • โ—†Simon also appears in early trailers of the game, fighting in Tesoro Azul, although he can not be found anywhere in the actual game.
View on Red Dead Wiki โ†’

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Last verified September 14, 2026