The Legend of the Pale Rider Part I. And I looked, and behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him Revelations 68, KJV. One man would blaze such a path of death and destruction across the western frontier that he would be forever associated with this passage. Disowned by his family, betrayed by his commanding officer, and framed for atrocities he did not commit, he was branded a murderer and a traitor. Living life on the run and forced to kill those who would take his freedom and his life, he nevertheless fought to defend, and sometimes avenge, those who could not do so