Lahood, hearing that the arrival of a pastor had given a whole new hope to the independent miners, briefly considered having him killed. But he realized he would just create a martyr. He then invited him to a meeting and tried to bribe him, to no avail. The miners owning the nearby Carbon Canyon, however, resisted his offers, wanting to strike it rich despite the mediocre results that had been encountered so far.Īfter a journey to Sacramento, Lahood became more motivated than ever to get Carbon Canyon. The other mines were getting empty, and the government of California was considering outlawing water cannons for mining. He is an exceptional sharpshooter and gunfighter - easily shooting guns out of men’s hands.Īround 1870, a man called Lahood discovered a gold vein in California which made him very rich. He expanded from there, buying claims from miners and then using his money to buy water cannons and force-mine the area. The Pale Rider is a skilled combatant. He can casually defeat four thugs in melee combat with bats. Some would go the next step and say he’s also the same person as the Man With No Name from the famous Sergio Leone old west movies. There are no clues to this (unlike the links between the Stranger and the Preacher), but having an unified “Old West Eastwood Iconic Character” would be cool. The latter part come from the enigmatic statement from Eastwood that the Rider was “an out-and-out ghost” - when watching the movie with this in mind there are various clues that the Rider is, indeed, dead.įor reference, the first line of the Preacher in Pale Rider is a reference to the first line of the Stranger in High Plains Drifter. My take is that he *is* the Stranger (from the movie High Plains Drifter), and that he somehow came back after his death, becoming a (likely self-proclaimed) pastor and taking on a mission of justice. There has been a fair bit of speculation as to who the Pale Rider is, fuelled by some cryptic comments by Clint Eastwood.
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