"By the time those became regulars in diets, I was a revenant. Never bothered me," he says, smirking. He may be a bit smug about that and a dick. "I never thought about it for others here. Just the alcoholics like Wynonna." And he had taken delight in that as well.

"Most people have an image, and some didn't fit that other. Some were mousy and obsessive and overdressed, and without the sort of spine a person needs. They followed men who used them, and in the end betrayed and abandoned them," he says, speaking as if it wasn't him. Not in the least. "And in our town, we lacked a lot of those. Why there were so many for Earp to curse."