Ray McCall (Outlaw’s Saga)

Ray McCall (1827 - 1884) was a former Confederate U.S. Soldier from Georgia before his desertion from his duties alongside his younger brother, Thomas in favor of protecting their brother, William. Due to their old homestead being burnt down and their family mostly gone, the three traveled to locations below the Missouri Compromise line all the way to Mexico, with Ray having became a hardened man, but after a tragic event, became a preacher in Texas until his eventual death. He served as one of the two main protagonists of Call of Juarez and Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood.
== Biography ==
=== History ===
Ray McCall was born around 1827 to the McCall Family near Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first born son of the McCalls, with his brothers, Thomas and William born years after. They were raised on the McCall Homestead and presumably owned slaves.
=== Civil War ===
Around 1864, the McCall brothers Ray and Thomas were called to service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. They became corporals. They were present at the Battle of the Chattahoochee River, just outside of Atlanta, which they barely emerged victorious. However, the two received word that they would be relocated to Jonesboro for resupply, which was 50 miles away and their homestead was in General William Tecumseh Sherman’s war path. The two decided to abandon the Confederacy to defend their family’s homestead. By the time they got there, it was already assaulted and taken over by the Union “Yankee” soldiers. Although William was alive and unharmed, their mother died during the night, whether she was killed by the Yankees or died of natural causes. The three decided to abandon their home, with Ray promising that they will return someday and rebuild it.
=== Shootout in Fort Smith, Arkansas ===
=== Meeting Juarez ===
=== The Treasure Hunt ===
=== The Vault ===
=== Preaching Years ===
After the surviving McCall brothers escaped Mexico with Marisa and covered up the vault without taking any gold, knowing full well it was cursed. The three returned to America and settled in a small town called Hope in southern Texas. Ray wed Thomas and Marisa, with the latter giving birth to Mendoza’s son, named Billy after William in their brother’s honor, but Thomas remained unfulfilled in life as a rancher and husband as he was more of a desperado while Ray struggled to deal with the people in the town. He put away his guns and dedicated his old years to preaching, just as William would have wanted, but he struggled with the sin-filled town and its folks.
=== Chasing Billy ===
=== Assaulting the Fort and Death ===
After having realized Billy was innocent and is saddened that he may have killed him for the wrong reason in God’s name, he decided to redeem himself by saving Molly Ferguson from Juarez, still alive after so many years. He went back to Mendoza’s old fort outside of Juarez for the first time in over 17 years. He stormed the fort, only to be captured alongside Molly. Billy later returned to save the two. After he dueled and only stunned Mendoza, Ray ordered that they must leave immediately, only for the man to suddenly get shot by Mendoza, who wore body armor during the duel. After Billy knocked Mendoza unconscious, Ray laid dying from his gunshot wound and prayed to God for forgiveness and requested to not let Billy or Molly die because of his past mistakes and wanted a second chance. In the end, God granted him this second chance as he witnessed Mendoza getting up while Billy and Molly embraced, with the evil man preparing to stab and kill his own son. However, Ray mustered up the last of his strength to raise his gun and shoot Mendoza in the head, putting him down once and for all. After Ray said “though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil”. After this, Ray McCall finally died of his gunshot wounds. Billy and Molly buried Ray in a small cemetery outside of the fort, with his hat hung on his grave.
=== Legacy ===
After Ray’s demise, Billy gave himself the McCall name and continued to keep the name alive for generations. However, the actual bloodline did not continue and it is up for questioning whether the McCall bloodline went extinct or still continues on somewhere.
By 1900, Jonathan Wallace of the American Southwest mentioned the McCall brothers from “the early days”, stating that he heard about three brothers who came from Georgia and went down to Mexico. He also mentions that one of them died in some hidden place in Chihuahua (William), the other was murdered at his own ranch in Texas (Thomas), with the last one having died during a final assault on a Mexican fort outside of Juarez (Ray).
In a non-canon video, his outfit was slightly recreated by John Marston.
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