Funny Man

John Marston meets Jimmy Saint on a bench inside Benedict Point's train station. Jimmy, a writer visiting from Manhattan, has been sent to capture the spirit of the West in an article. He is taken with John's hard cowboy image and speaks eagerly about his assignment. John warns him that the country he wants to write about is more dangerous than he seems to expect.

Later, John finds Jimmy hogtied in the mine at Gaptooth Breach, near the lift, after the writer has fallen into the hands of bandits. John cuts him loose. Jimmy's attempt to seek out material for his article has gone badly, but he continues his travels. John encounters him again in Pike's Basin, tied up once more, and frees him from another scrape.

Jimmy turns up for a final time at Tesoro Azul. He is bound on the roof of the main building within the gang hideout, and John reaches him and releases him. Having survived yet another captivity, Jimmy says he will abandon jokes and considers becoming a musician or a war reporter. He leaves Tesoro Azul after John frees him.