The latter quickly realized that the young boy had an incredible ability to shoot just right and had an amazing chance. His parents were murdered by the 'cheating gang' when he was only ten years old, and he was then taken under the protective wing of an old family friend: Dick Digger.
In 2009, on the occasion of James Huth's film on the series, the cowboy's origins were invented from scratch for the purposes of the script: his name was John Luke, and he was the son of an Irish immigrant to the United States and an Indian woman who lived near Daisy Town, where he went to school. In the Phil Defer album, we learn that Lucky Luke had an uncle who was a gunsmith. Written by Morris, there are two comic strips in which Lucky Luke appears as a child under the nickname 'Kid Lucky' in the company of an old gold digger (known only as 'Old-timer'), and in which Luke says he is an orphan. The comic strip does not really tell the story of Lucky Luke's origins: we do not know where he came from or where he was born.
