Jed Ryan

Jed Ryan is a minor character featured in the Rawhide series. He is an outlaw affiliated with the Luke Storm gang. He was portrayed by John Larch.

Biography
Dawson was likely born sometime around 1830 in the United States of America. As an adult, he turned to a life of crime and eventually began working for the notorious outlaw Luke Storm. Sometime around the year 1865, Dawson was arrested alongside Lennie Dawson and Storm's wife, Dallas.

Appearances
Ryan appears during the episode Incident of the Tumbleweed Wagon, during which he is one of seven prisoners in a tumbleweed wagon being escorted to trial by Marshal Wilt Jackson and his deputy, Art Gray. The group sets up camp next to a watering hole alongside cattle drovers led by Gil Favor. Ryan and Dawson ambush and kill Gray that night, using his revolver to wound Jackson before attempting to escape on horseback. Only Ryan escapes, as Dawson and Storm are recaptured. The wounded Jackson convinces Favor to escort him and the remaining prisoners to Fort Craig, New Mexico.

Ryan is able to warn Luke Storm and his gang catch up to the prison wagon at a river crossing, but Favor and ramrod Rowdy Yates are able to hold them off until Dallas falls into the river and Favor is forced to rescue her, resulting in his and Yates' capture. When Dallas attempts to defend them, Luke shoots her, and Favor quickly kills him and Ryan. Favor and Yates are presumably able to bring Dawson and the remaining prisoners to their destination.