Dusty McBride

Dusty McBride is a rancher living in Novac in 2281.

Background
Dusty and Alice, his wife, are the salt of Novac's earth. Honest, hardworking, and married for more than 50 years, they've seen much of what wasteland has to offer. Despite that, their love is as strong as ever as they continue to raise brahmin together in Novac. Dusty's the man in charge of the brahmin, while Alice specializes in processing their meat into edible steaks - Dusty keeps joking it's the thing keeping him at her side - but their business recently ran into trouble. For the past several weeks, someone has been killing their brahmin each night. They don't steal them, don't eat them, they just gun one brahmin down each night. And it seems to happen at the same time, around 12 AM, Dusty and his wife hear gunshots and mooing while in bed. When coming out to investigate what happened, Dusty finds the corpses of his livestock, riddled with bullet holes. The McBrides are at the end of their wits, especially since they're down to half their herd. Any longer and they'd be denied a livelihood.

Quests

 * The Screams of Brahmin: He informs the Courier about his brahmin being attacked at midnight every night. According to Dusty, they are found with bullet holes in them.
 * One for My Baby: Dusty can be blamed for the enslavement of Carla Boone and thus be brought up to the front of the Dinosaur to be shot by Craig Boone.

Effects of player's actions

 * After completing "The Screams of Brahmin," he will reward the Courier with caps and allow them access to the house fridge, which contains 9-10 brahmin steaks.
 * If Alice McBride is killed, Dusty will comment that it's not like her to be gone this long.

Appearances
Dusty McBride appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * Sometimes after killing the hostile nightkin, you'll be unable to collect the reward from Dusty. It simply doesn't give the dialogue option to speak to Dusty about it.
 * Dusty's face disappears after killing No-bark Noonan.