For every shadow where the traitors lurk,A blade shall follow, a soul shall rend,Until the cycle of blood finds its end.

Most of the harm done to the McReals is self-inflicted. Derrick betrayed his friend. Francis betrayed his brother. Gerry got himself locked up with his own greed. You cannot take vengeance on a family that eats itself.

Their story serves as a useful historical counter-narrative, highlighting that for many on the frontier, the law was a tool for the powerful, and death was often met with silence rather than a smoking gun. land syndicates influenced frontier law, or perhaps look into other unsolved cold cases from that era?

The brothers are often depicted as cogs in a larger machine. Whether it is industrial labor or the "work" of survival in a hostile landscape, their energy is drained by the necessity of staying alive. Vengeance requires time and resources they simply do not possess.