Red Harlow

Red Harlow (Born: June 19th, 1857) was an American bounty hunter.

Biography
Red Harlow was born on June 19th, 1857 to Nate Harlow, a prospector and frontiersman, and Falling Star, the daughter of Running Moon- the chief of the Red Wolf Tribe. Red was born of his father’s homestead on Broken Creek but was mostly raised by his mother as Nate was away mining and fighting during the Civil War. Red was close with the Red Wolf tribe and was playmates with his cousin Shadow Wolf, but due to escalating tensions between the natives of Bear Mountain and the American settlers the two were forbidden from meeting with each other. In 1872, Nate returned from prospecting in Bear Mountain with a sack full of gold and greeted Red and Falling Star. Red then noticed that Nate had a new revolver and asked him about it, which Nate explained that in celebration for their discovery of a giant gold vein in the mountain that he and his partner Griffon Dillard had a pair of matching revolvers made. Nate then gave his old service pistol to Red and told him to practice shooting at the scarecrow near the creek. Red then began practicing and discovered that he was a skilled shooter after shooting off the scarecrows' hands, legs, and head as well as shooting his mother's pots and pans which annoyed her. As Red was discussing this with his parents, the homestead was suddenly raided by bandits and they decided to fight back. Red was forced to kill for the first time and rushed to help his parents. During the fighting, Red was separated from them, and he heard their screams as they were killed and rushed to see them. As Red was mourning their deaths he was confronted by Colonel Daren Johnson, the man who arranged the raid and killed his parents, who taunted him and prepared to kill him. Red then saw his father’s new revolver in a fire next to them and grabbed it, scaring the scorpion design on his hand, and shot Daren, ripping off his arm and shocking his men allowing for Red to escape and hide in a ditch covered in grass at the end of the creek. Red was then found by Shadow Wolf who had heard about the raid and brought him to the tribe to live with them. Red then decided that he wanted to search for his parents’ killers and learned survival skills to go on his hunt. Red then spent months looking for Daren, but was unable to track him down. Red then met an aging bounty hunter who taught him a technique known as Dead Eye to make him a better gunslinger. Red then decided to become a bounty hunter and used it as a way to find Daren. In 1884, Red was traveling through New Austin with his pet dog, when he met a traveling merchant named Curly Shaw who sold him some knives in Twin Rocks. The two were then confronted by two members of the Butcher Gang who began threatening them. Red threw one of his knives at one and shot the other, leading to a gunfight with the rest of the gang. Red then eliminated the outlaws, which caused the leaders of the gang: Bloody Tom, Big Oaf Whitney, and Loaf Whitney to attack him. Big Oaf Whitney charged at Red with his shotgun, however Red dodged him and stabbed him repeatedly until he died. Red then grabbed his revolver and shot Bloody Tom in the head, killing him instantly, before shooting Loaf in the stomach after he emerged from behind a rock, causing Loaf to die from the shock. Shaw then told Red that Tom and his cronies had prices on their head and that Sheriff James O’Grady in Widow’s Patch would take them, Red then took Shaw’s cart to transport Tom’s, Oaf’s, and Loaf’s bodies. Once Red reached Widow’s Patch, O’Grady explained to him that the town had become overrun by the Ugly Gang and he had nothing to offer him in exchange for the bodies. As the two were conversing, Red’s dog urinated on one of the members of the gang’s boots which caused him to shoot and kill it. Red became enraged and shot him and his friends in the street, causing the rest of the gang to emerge and attack Red. Red then killed every member of the gang, including the enforcers, before the leader “Ugly” Chris Bailey emerged, using a battered Sheriff O’Grady as a human shield before fighting Red. Red then shot Bailey’s feet, forcing him to drop O’Grady who knocked Bailey to the ground with a stomach punch, allowing Red to shoot Bailey in the head, killing him.

Locations
Broken Creek, Red Wolf County, North Elizabeth, United States