No one in the gang ever looks to John for leadership. Even if you just compare the journal when Arthur did it to John, Arthur is more artistic, more literate and generally more eloquent than John. Arthur’s weakness is he followed Dutch and Hosea too much. By the time of RDR1 John has over a dozen years of living his own life. More @Wikipedia
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