He's a fella by the name of Raylan Givens. He and I have known each other since we were kids. We were... friends, I guess. [Even back then, Boyd mostly had followers.] Our daddies did a lot of business together, which threw us together somewhat. He and I also worked closely with each other down in the mines for a year, when we were nineteen. It's the kind of thing that makes you brothers, even when you're not down in the hole.

Then, Raylan went away to college and I went in the army. We didn't see each other again for twenty years, when he came back to Harlan wearin' a US Marshal's badge. That was a week or so before that scene you witnessed; that dream.