| “ | The Prospector: You measly skunk! You shot me in the back! It went clean through! He didn't hit nothing important! He didn't hit nothing *important*! Nothing important! Just guts is all you had! | „ |
| ~ The Prospector after feigning death to the Young Man. |
The Young Man is the main antagonist of "All Gold Canyon", the fourth story in the 2018 dark comedy Western film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
He is an individual who spied on an unnamed prospector and sought to steal the gold he finds during the US Gold Rush.
He is portrayed by Sam Dillon.
Physical appearance[]
The young man is a tall, Caucasian man with a youthful appearance and blond hair. He is seen dressed in all black cowboy gear.
Biography[]
A lone prospector travels through the US hills amid the Gold Rush. He begins panning for gold, and finds fragments which indicate a rich ore is nearby. The prospector tirelessly begins digging to little avail, before coming up with a plan that would help locate the ore's vein. Eventually, the prospector strikes gold with his shovel and unearths an enormous wad of it.
A shadow blocks out the sun, which the prospector immediately realises he and his gold have been discovered. The scared prospector is shot in the back by the young man who is revealed to have been spying on him, allowing him to do the manual labour and steal the gold from his efforts. The young man enters the prospector's hole and begins to collect his bounty, but the prospector is revealed to have cleverly feigned his death and shoots the young man to death and reclaims the fruits of his labour. The prospector then buries the young man's corpse and leaves in glee.
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Buster Scruggs | The Kid | Cowboy | The Impresario | Young Man | Clarence and Thigpen | ||