A specific type of itinerant Con Man, somewhat similar to the Hustler in being both less financially stable and having a poorer group of victims as well, and also has some overlap with the Honest John as being a purveyor of shoddy goods, not always phony medicine. The character is often played as a Loveable Rogue type, frequently being extremely attractive to local women, having "seen the world" (or at least is good at pretending to have done so). Somewhat inexplicably sympathetic, given the obvious result of a sick person being given medicine which doesn't actually work.