Only for the one's who like westerns.
On the other hand if you take away somewhan others may out notice. And will come looking for them.
In the beginning of the game, John Cooper needs to get his team at one point. He needs to save Sam from a mean Baron. (Sam is there a slave) After that he needs to save Doc from hanging. And Kate is discovered while cheating playing poker. And is loked up.
Playing with diffrent caracters makes it even more fun, becose all the people have diffrent thing they can do. So you need them all to be succesfull.