Eager for quick riches, Clay partners with seasoned prospector Floyd Brogles to excavate the old mine at Gaptooth Breach. While using the miners' old railway house to haul equipment, they are ambushed by local vagabonds, and Floyd is captured and hogtied. Clay manages to escape but gets injured and finds himself unable to go further to get help. He wears a straw boater hat, spectacles, and fine clothes, suggesting that he is fairly well-to-do and appears all around the map, assuming he travels a lot.
Events of Red Dead Redemption[]
When Marston first enters the Gaptooth Breach gang hideout, he encounters an injured Pettiford, hiding behind two crates. Clay explains the situation to John, and where they are holding his partner, Floyd. He stays behind to guard the entrance but will be shot dead off-screen before Marston can rescue his friend.
Despite his apparent "death", Clay can still be found in Blackwater, wandering through the town, smoking or sitting outside the offices of Felix Publishing & Immigration Co., which is likely where he is employed. He is also known to frequent Armadillo and can sometimes be found on the red train line. He can also spawn riding on a horse through various places in New Austin.
That cougar tore that preacher a new armpit. Shame!
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—Clay Pettiford
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Did you hear about the savages attacking that stagecoach? Shame!
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—Clay Pettiford
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The cougar with claws like pitchforks. He's right over that bend.
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—Clay Pettiford
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I heard Miss Crabapple fornicates with Chinamen. Shame!
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—Clay Pettiford
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I hear that Miss Crabapple committed an act of sodomy on that poor Chinaman.
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—Clay Pettiford
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That's the last time I go to that saloon. Too many violent drunks.
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—Clay Pettiford
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Well, hello there.
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—Clay Pettiford when greeted
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My, my, that's quite the bark tongue you've got there.
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—Clay Pettiford when insulted
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I have no ears for your uneducated words!
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—Clay Pettiford when insulted
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Lucifer's hellfire!
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—Clay Pettiford when knocked over or shocked
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Holy britches!
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—Clay Pettiford when shocked
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Gentlemen, this here will be a fair race! No shooting, stabbing, cliff-pushing, rock-throwing, cactus-grinding, neck-lassoing, setting fires, or other acts that causes a rider to unfairly lose his way, nor bleed heavily or black out!
Clay will always be killed at Gaptooth Breach regardless of what the player does. He will also slump into a death pose if the player stays in exactly the same spot for two seconds or a bit longer after the starting cutscene.
On an odd note, if the player kills Clay at Gaptooth Breach, they will not be able to finish the hideout and must restart the game, even though Clay dies regardless.
He wears exactly the same outfit as Titus Sinclair, with the exception that Sinclair sports a bow tie on his collar.
