Jock Thurston

John Wilson "Jock" Thurston was an American outlaw, frontiersman, and city councilman in the LCW Pathfinder campaign. Born to Jack and Mary Thurston on Valentine's Day 1865 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Jock showed an aptitude from a young age for navigating social situations. He dropped out of school to help his father run cattle routes, and got in bad with the Cowboy Dan Posse in Dallas. Jock was with the CDP from around 1880 to after the Porcupine Ridge Incident in 1891. After the train wreck, Jock tried to return to New Mexico, but found that most of his family had either died or moved on, so he headed east to "escape the west" and start a new life. Thurston ran unsuccessfully for city council in Mobile, Alabama twice, but was elected on his third attempt in 1898. He served three years of a four year term. During this time, he worked as an informant for the Dixie Mafia.

Thurston ran into two previous Posse members, Lenford Kemp and Gib Herbert in 1901 when they raided a Dixie Mafia meeting. Thurston convinced the two bandits to take him with them, and headed west with them to escape the Dixie Mafia and confront and kill Daniel Baumgartner, or at the very least get to Pueblo, Colorado, where Thurston thought he'd be safe. Somewhere around Texarkana, Arkansas, Thurston suggested this plan on Herbert and Kemp. Herbert agreed, but Kemp revealed that he planned to join Baumgartner, not kill him. A gunfight ensued during which Kemp left the other two for dead and left to join Baumgartner on his own. Thurston's life was saved by Ashkii and David Undertow.

Thurston accompanied the group up to Kansas City, where they became involved in a plot to assist the local police in robbing up-and-coming mob boss TJ Pendergast out of a large amount of valuable overproof whiskey. During the raid on the overproof whiskey distillery, Thurston was shot in the head by Kristopher Ewan "Kris" Killeen, a hired thug who also died in the fight. Thurston died instantly. He was thirty-six years old.