A famous movie director of Westerns who buys the ranch from under Jim and Lily. He has stereotypical ideas about what a ranch should look like, and fires Jim, along with many of the ranch hands, for not fitting in with his image of a cowboy. Later Jim helps him save the cattle during a particularly bad winter storm, after which Gaiters offers Jim his job back as ranch manager. Not wanting to report to Gaiters, Jim declines.