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The Wheel, John Marston
Epilogue, Part 1 – Pronghorn Ranch

The Wheel

John Marston

Several years after fleeing Dutch and the gang, John, Abigail and Jack look for work in the town of Strawberry.

Mission giver
John Marston
Playable
Not stated
Location
Pronghorn Ranch, Big Valley
Target
Not stated
Unlocked by
Not stated
Unlocks
Not stated

Player notes

Several years after the gang's collapse, John Marston drives Abigail and Jack through Big Valley in a wagon. The family has left its former life behind and is searching for honest work, though John and Abigail remain uneasy about what lies ahead. Jack talks about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, while his parents try to reassure him. They decide to seek a quiet life in Strawberry, and the story follows John as he takes charge of the family once more.

In Strawberry, John calls himself Jim Milton when he approaches the shopkeeper at Coopers General Store. He accepts a delivery job carrying supplies to Pronghorn Ranch, then goes to the doctor's office to find Abigail. Abigail has arranged cleaning work at the surgery, and Jack is with her. After they speak, John returns to the loaded wagon and sets out from town with the ranch's goods.

John reaches Pronghorn Ranch and delivers the supplies to its foreman, Tom Dickens. He asks Dickens for ranch work, but Dickens says David Geddes does not usually hire married hands. Two Laramie Boys interrupt them, help themselves to the wagon's cargo, and then steal the wagon. Dickens sends John after them on a horse.

John catches the thieves, climbs aboard the moving wagon and throws them off. He drives the recovered wagon back to Pronghorn Ranch. Dickens identifies the men as Laramie Boys and, impressed by John's response, agrees to give the Marstons a chance. He says he will speak to Geddes and offers the family a small cabin on the ranch. John enters the cabin at Pronghorn Ranch.

Objectives

7 steps

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

  1. 1Go to Strawberry
  2. 2Speak with the Shopkeeper
  3. 3Go to the Doctor's Office to meet with Abigail
  4. 4Return to your wagon
  5. 5Deliver the goods to Pronghorn Ranch
  6. 6Retrieve the wagon
  7. 7Return the wagon to Pronghorn Ranch

Trivia

  • ◆The mission’s title is a reference to the Rota Fortunae (“Wheel of Fortune”), which in ancient and medieval philosophy served as a symbol of the mercurial nature of Destiny Fate. Many traditional tales of King Arthur such as Thomas Malory's famous Le Morte d'Arthur ("The Death of Arthur") also used the concept of the Wheel in such a way, with some stories and works of art making direct links between the Wheel and the Round Table of Arthur's Knights.
  • ◆A common interpretation of Malory's usage of the Rota Fortunae in "The Death of Arthur" in particular is that the Wheel symbolizes the concept that even the greatest of human beings have flaws and make mistakes on their journeys toward their various fates. Thus, a man could be far from the ideal model of morality and yet still ultimately redeem himself and achieve his destiny of being a good knight or king.
  • ◆At the start of the mission, Jack rides in the back of a wagon (perhaps intended as a symbolic “cart”) when he has a conversation with his parents about the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. His father John later gives Jack the alias "Lancelot," which is traditionally the name of King Arthur’s bravest and greatest knight. For centuries Lancelot has represented a key figure in biblical motifs associated with Arthurian legends. One of the first and most influential stories to feature Lancelot as a protagonist was the twelfth-century epic poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, in which the hero's quest to save Guinevere has been compared by literary critics to Christ's quest to redeem the human soul.
  • ◆John Marston first uses the alias "Jim Milton" in this mission. The name may be a reference to English poet John Milton, whose epic poem Paradise Lost describes the fall of man and shares many themes with the Redemption games. Paradise Lost notably was originally intended to follow the legends of King Arthur before the author decided to make the poem directly biblical.
  • ◆John becomes a main playable character again in the series for the first time in eight years following the release of the original game, with his last playable appearance being "The Last Enemy That Shall Be Destroyed", which takes place chronologically long after the events of this mission.
  • ◆Even though the character of John is programmed to be unarmed during this mission, it is possible for the player to obtain a firearm for John during this mission if, after leaving Strawberry to take the grocery supplies to Pronghorn Ranch, they drive the wagon to Watson's Cabin before going to the ranch and pick up the shotgun in the basement of the cabin. If the player does this, they can shoot and kill the two Laramie Boys who steal the wagon, after arriving at the ranch.
  • ◆From this mission onward, John has a different character model, one that is based off of Arthur.
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Last verified September 14, 2026