The Outsiders Headcanons & Facts

Dallas Tucker Winston

Birthday: November 9, 1948
Death: 1965, aged 17, died from gunshot wounds

- 17 years old

- elfish face, high cheekbones, pointed chin, small sharp teeth, towhead, blue eyes

- doesn't like haircuts or hair oil

- spent 3 years on the wild side of New York

- first arrested at 10 years old

- tougher, colder and meaner than anyone

- doesn't specifically hate anything other than Socs

- reputation to keep

- police has a file on him

- been arrested, drunk, rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids

- smart

- respected

- his ring: rolled a drunk old man to get

- hates to do things the legal way

- jockeys for the Slash J

- likes fiery girls

- no one call tell him what to do

- will leave you alone if he knew you

- had seen people killed in New York

- the Curtis' mom kept him from getting in a lot of trouble

- "Dally was anything but handsome"

- would be a miracle if he loved anything

- when riding the horses, he does his best to win

- took the blame when Two-Bit broke the school windows

- doesn't want Johnny and Pony picking up his bad habits

- likes to drive fast

- has a cousin that lives around Windrixville

- doesn't care about his parents

- if something bothers him, he doesn't keep quiet about it

- dangerous; "if you rubbed him the wrong way — look out."

- "Not even Darry wanted to tangle with him."

- doesn't want Johnny to get hurt, or hardened in jail like it happened to Dallas

- selfish

- never talks about his past; "— if he talked about it at all, it was to brag."

- doesn't cry at all

- lives anywhere he could

- bad temper

- likes to show that he doesn't care about the law

- Buck Merril: rodeo partner

- gets brought into the police station for everything that happens

- "I knew better than to talk to him when his eyes were blazing like that. I'd likely as not get clobbered over the head. That has happened before, just as it had happened to all the gang at one time or another."

- proud of his police record

- "Dallas is always okay. He could take anything."

- good friends with Tim Shepard

- "Johnny was the only thing Dally loved."

- always gets what he wants