Hired gun. An outlaw who works for whoever pays. His code: no women, no children. Not at any price.

Born William Redford, raised near the Cimarron Trail and the Cimarron River in Oklahoma cattle country, the youngest of five sons, about a year apart: Buck (oldest), Peter, Joseph, Luke, then William. His father, Buford, preached; his mother, Rose, sewed. Buck, Peter, and Joseph followed their daddy into the ministry. Luke became a lawman.

William followed neither path - he walked out of the pews, through the cattle work, and into the hired-gun trade. As a boy, his hero was Tom Starr, the infamous Cherokee bandit.  His mentor though was his Uncle Weldon Redford, the black sheep of the family: an outlaw in the Oklahoma Territory and Kansas. Soon though the student became the teacher. 

By the time he reaches Guthrie he is no young gun trying to make a name. At 50 he already has the name. He dresses like a man who gets paid, carries himself quiet, and does not start trouble for fun - he finishes it for money. The sharp clothes are not vanity. They are part of the job, and part of the upbringing he never quite left behind.