Jimmy Saint

Jimmy Saint is a minor character and stranger featured in Red Dead Redemption.

Saint is the center of events in the Funny Man stranger mission and is a naive journalist from the American East Coast, writing for a magazine based out of the state of New York. He is traveling through the American West to gather material to write an article on the region. He is most commonly known as Jimmy or the "Funny Man". He is first encounter in Benedict Point Train Station .In the game the player saves him from some gang hideouts scattered over the map. The first hideout is Gaptooth Breach Mine, then Tesoro Azul, and finally Fort Mercer. After being saved for the last time, he expresses regret for coming to New Austin and says he will pursue other ventures.

Trivia

 * His stranger mission is used to first introduce players to Gang Hideouts.
 * He expresses the ignorant sterotypes that the East had of the Wild West at the time.
 * His name might be a reference to a character from the Green Day concept album, American Idiot. Both leave their hometown to find something better than what they are used to but find things very different.