In 1985, Dutch saved a boy from lynching in the hands of some homesteaders who'd caught him stealing in Illinois. That boy turned out to be 12-years-old John Marston, a bad kid who'd start robbing and killing at a young age. His mother, a prostitute, had died in childbirth and his father had been blinded in a bar fight, and died in 1881 when John was eight years old. Shrewd, fearless and strong-willed, He and Arthur are Dutch's proudest protégés.