Notorious outlaw and educated gunslinger, primary rival to Wyatt and Doc in Tombstone.
Ringo represents the final surviving threat to Wyatt's campaign.
Ringo becomes the Cowboys' leader and challenges Wyatt to a showdown intended to end the hostilities.
Their intellectual and gunslinging rivalry culminates in the decisive showdown.
Doc and Ringo verbally spar early in Tombstone, and Doc later secretly goes ahead to confront and kill him in a duel.
Ringo's succession creates a clear internal chain of command.
Curly Bill leads the Cowboys, while Ringo is identified as his second-in-command and later becomes the Cowboys' new leader.
Ringo's manipulation and killing of McMasters intensify the revenge conflict.
Ringo lures McMasters under the pretense of parley, delivers his corpse, and uses the act to challenge Wyatt.
Their opposing factional loyalties place them against one another.
Ringo leads the Cowboys after Curly Bill's death, while Turkey Creek joins Wyatt's posse against the Cowboys.
Ringo's leadership places Ike within the surviving Cowboy hierarchy.
Ringo becomes the Cowboys' new leader, while Ike remains a prominent member of the same faction.
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