Reid is the pianist at the Armadillosaloon. According to his campfire tales, he grew up on a sheep farm.
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Events of Red Dead Redemption[]
Reid can usually be found in the Armadillo saloon, playing the piano. Sometimes when he's done playing he may order a drink. Reid can sometimes also be found at a campsite in Cholla Springs, usually not too far from Armadillo. If Marston chooses to sit down, Reid will tell campfire stories. If the player steals his horse or of his company, he may pull out a rifle and give chase.
Sometimes he can also be found riding on horseback around Río Bravo. If he is near Fort Mercer and sees any of the banditos on the Fort's roof, he may recklessly open fire on them before riding away.
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I once heard about this old Mexican colonel from my granddaddy. I'm talking like 50 years back or something. He worked for a real sick son-of-a-bitch across the border, and them times was vicious. So this colonel was big. I mean the size of a mountain. Ah, boy, did he like to scare folks. This crazy Mexican even went and got a cannon made he could mount on his shoulder. You believe that? Ha!
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—Reid tells a story about Colonel Daren
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I remember when I was a young lad growing up on a farm. We had sheep and horses. We had to shear them sheep every Spring. Hell of a task, I don't mind telling you. I must have been no more than six or seven when my pa hands me the shears and sets me to work. I didn't have a clue. Took best part of a day to shear one damn sheep. Ha! Damn!
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—Reid tells a story about his childhood
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This one time we needed a new pianist, so we set out for Blackwater to go find one. We can't have got more than two miles outside Armadillo when we got set upon. It was the damn Walton boys, sure enough, and we was lucky to get back here alive. It just goes to show, the roads ain't safe around here no more.
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—Reid tells a story about leaving Armadillo to get a new pianist for Armadillo
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A long time back, when this place was still crawling with savages and decent folks was only just arriving, over at Hamlin's Passing, a wagon train got set upon by Indians. Well, they didn't waste no time getting bloody. Women, children, they killed them all. Not a soul left. We got them back in the end though, didn't we? Damn them reservations.
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—Reid tells a story about Indian raids
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You ever heard tell about a famous old bounty hunter from these parts went by the name of Red Harlow? My granddaddy knew him personal. They were drinking buddies or some such. When Red was a kid, his parents got slaughtered by some bastard of a Mexican general. Red was real cold, must have killed damn near a thousand men. Sure was hard times back then.
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—Reid tells a story about Red Harlow
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You heard of a gunslinger named John Marston? You will soon if you ain't yet. He went up to Fort Mercer for the second time to go get Bill Williamson. This time he went in heavy, and those sick bastards didn't stand a chance. He shot up over a hundred of them single-handed, even injured Bill, so I heard, before he could escape.
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—Reid tells a story about the assault on Fort Mercer
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Don't know if you heard of the Bollard boys? Don't matter if you ain't. You know the type, real mean sons of bitches. Killers to a man. Partial to rustling cattle and robbing just about anybody they can. Not too long back, the Marshal took his men out of Armadillo and went looking for the Bollard Gang. Found them up at Pike's Basin and damn near shot them all, every last one.
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—Reid tells a story about the Bollard Twins Gang
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You heard anything about that boy that went missing, a few days back?
Sometimes around a campfire, Kinsey will talk about Red Harlow and how his grandfather used to be Red's drinking buddy.
Even though he mentions that his grandpa said that Colonel Daren was Mexican, this is in fact not correct, as he was actually an American who worked for a Mexican renegade general.
