Art Croft: narrator, posse member
Gil Carter: Croft’s partner, posse member
Monty Smith: town bum, posse member
Canby: saloon owner and bartender
Moore: Drew’s foreman, posse member
Bartlett: small rancher living in town, urged posse formation, posse member
Jeff Farnley: Kinkaid’s buddy, works for Drew, posse member
Osgood: ineffectual, cowardly minister
Rose Mapen: Gil’s former girlfriend, left Bridger’s Wells, married Swanson
Drew: biggest ranch owner in area
Larry Kinkaid: murder “victim”
Davies: town storekeeper, believed in justice and law, posse member
Joyce: Davies’ young helper
Greene: young man who reports Kincaid’s “murder,” posse member
Bill Winder: stage driver with grudge against railroads, posse member
Gabe Hart: Winder’s helper, posse member
Risley: sheriff
Judge Tyler: local judge who is not respected by the men
Mapes: Risley’s deputy, eager lyncher, posse member
Sparks: African American man, respected for his deep faith, posse member
Ma (Jenny) Grier: woman who runs a boarding house, posse member
Major Tetley: Confederate veteran who assumes posse leadership
Gerald Tetley: Major Tetley’s sensitive and intelligent son, posse member
Amigo: Tetley’s Mexican cowhand, claims to have seen rustlers, posse member
Carl Bartlett: son of old Bartlett; posse member
Nate Bartlett: son of old Bartlett; posse member
Frena Handel: woman in Bridger’s Wells urging on the posse
Mark: Tetley’s cowhand
Alex Small: stagecoach driver
Jimmy Carnes: stagecoach guard; shoots Art in the shoulder
Swanson: Rose Mapen’s cultured, self-assured husband
Donald Martin: young man who bought cattle from Drew
The Mex: Martin’s helper; suspected of being a notorious outlaw
Alva Hardwick: old, feeble-minded man traumatized by the Civil War
Content last updated: April 30, 2005
