Garth

CHARACTER
Garth
Gender	Male
Profession(s)	Treasure Hunter
Allegiance(s)	Panama Hat Fedora's Gang

"You lost today, kid, but that doesn't mean you have to like it."

―Garth

Garth also known as "Fedora" was a leader of a gang of hired treasure hunters who retrieved the Cross of Coronado from a canyon site in Utah in 1912.

Biography

On this looting excavation, he wore a leather jacket and brown fedora. When his back was turned, a young Indiana Jones stole the Cross and escaped across the Utah landscape on horseback and circus train. Garth and his men chased Indy with cars, and even helped Indy escape a dangerous situation in the lion car of the train. Eventually, after Jones returned to his home with the cross, Garth and his gang arrived at the Jones house and, with the assistance of the local Sheriff, rightfully claimed the salvaged artifact for his client, Panama Hat.

He admired young Jones' ingenuity and courage while attempting to claim it.

When he and his colleagues left the Jones' homestead, he gave some encouraging words to young Indy and placed his fedora hat onto Jones' head before walking out the door. Indy may have also based his future outfit similar to what Garth wore.

Behind the scenes

Early drafts of The Last Crusade alluded to him being Abner Ravenwood, Indiana's mentor. However all references to this identity have been removed from the final cut, although he still appears more prominently than the other hunters with close-ups, and he is the only one who sympathized young Indy.

"Fedora" is the name of the character given in the script and credits, but in the movie itself, Roscoe mentions the name 'Garth' just before handing the unearthed box to him. While the subtitles on both the 2003 and 2008 editions of the Last Crusade DVD acknowledge the Fedora name instead, the line as stated by Roscoe exists in Ryder Windham's junior novelization of the film, confirming that it is Fedora — and ergo Garth — to whom the line is directed.

However, the character seems to reappear in the Wolfgang Hohlbein novel Indiana Jones und das Verschwundene Volk (Indiana Jones and the Lost People) where it is suggested his name is Jake (though it could refer to Half Breed instead).

The role of Garth was played by Richard Young. A few months after the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Richard Young returned to the role of Garth in a live performance for the opening show (which was produced by Steven Spielberg) of the 1989 National Boy Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia.

Appearances

• Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure (Indirect mention)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (First appearance)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade novel
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comic
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade junior novel
• LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Non-canonical appearance)

Sources

• The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
• Indiana Jones: The Official Magazine 4