Martin | Andreeson | A federal investigator. |
Benedict | Arnold | A military officer. |
David | Balfour | A Scottish-Danish shipbuilder, director of Bremerholm. |
Lex | Barker | An American actor. |
Harold | Barkus | The gas and oil man. |
Karen | Basca | Tommy Basca's mother. |
Margery | Basca | Tommy Basca's aunt. |
Stanley | Basca | Tommy Basca's father. |
Tommy | Basca | One of the boys who bullied Davy. aka: Bubby. |
Sam | Bass | An American Old West train robber and outlaw. |
Earl | Battey | An American professional baseball player. |
Ludwig | Beethoven | A German composer and pianist. |
Jack | Benedick | A pipe-and-furnace man in Montrose. |
Leroy | Biersten | The principal of the school. |
David | Brinkley | One of the state cops. |
Mrs. | Buelah | A nurse. |
Mrs. | Bushka | A bakery owner. |
Julius | Caesar | Former Roman consul. |
John | Calvin | A French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva. |
Roger | Capps | A man who die from falling out of a helicopter. |
Butch | Cassidy | An American criminal. |
Howard | Cawley | Roxanna's great-uncle. |
Mr. | Cawley | Roxanna's father. The theater operator. |
Mrs. | Cawley | Roxanna's mother. |
Roxanna | Cawley | A woman who operates a gas station in Badland. |
Lee Van | Cleef | An American actor. |
Mrs. | DeCuellar | Mr. DeCuellar's wife. |
Thomas | DeCuellar | Davy's deense attorney. |
Charles | Dickens | An English writer and social critic. |
Marlene | Dietrich | A German-born American actress and singer. |
John | Donne | An English poet, scholar, and soldier. |
Francis | Drake | An English naval officer. |
Peter | Emerson | Reuben's acquaintance. |
Marianne | Evans | Jeremiah's acquaintance. |
Israel | Finch | One of the boys who bullied Davy. |
Mr. | Finch | Israel Finch's grandfather. |
Lonnie | Ford | Roxanna's neighbor. |
Harold | Godwinson | King of England. |
Francisco | Goya | A Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. |
Graham | Greene | An English writer and journalist. |
Zane | Grey | An American author. |
Aaron W. | Groap | A columnist. |
Mr. | Haplin | A literate bachelor. |
John Wesley | Hardin | An American gunfighter. |
| Heintz | A football coach. |
Chester | Holgren | The superintendent of the school. |
Chet | Huntley | One of the state cops. |
Mr. | Hyde | Jeremiah's acquaintance. |
Jesse | James | An American outlaw. |
Thomas | Jefferson | 3rd U.S. President. |
Harper | Juval | A federal investigator. |
Miss | Karlen | A school teacher. |
Clark | Kentlike | A reporter. |
Jean | Lafitte | A French pirate and privateer. |
Helen | Land | Jeremiah's wife. |
Jeremiah | Land | A school janitor. |
Reuben | Land | Helen and Jeremiah's son. Aka: Rube. |
Mike | Lanz | The young county sheriff. |
Oscar | Larson | Jeremiah's acquaintance. |
Johnny | Latt | A reverend. |
Gerard | Layton | A member of the Methodist Church. |
Robert E. | Lee | An American-Confederate general. |
Ray | Levy | Andreeson's supervisor. |
C. S. | Lewis | A British writer and lay theologian. |
Meriwether | Lewis | An American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator. |
Abraham | Lincoln | 16th U.S. President. |
Sonny | Liston | An American professional boxer. |
Harry Alonzo | Longabaugh | An outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. |
Tin | Lurvy | A traveling salesman. |
Galen | Max | The deputy. |
Herman | Melville | An American novelist, short story writer, and poet. |
John | Milton | An English poet. |
Joaquin | Murieta | The great bandido. |
Miss | Nelson | Swede's teacher. |
Dr. | Nickles | Reuben's doctor. |
Animas | Nokes | Land's family doctor. |
Mrs. | Nokes | Dr. Nokes' wife. |
Bethany | Orchard | Reuben's friend. |
Frank | O'Rourke | A former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. |
Maureen | O'Sullivan | An American-Irish actress. |
| Paxton | A sheriff. |
Charlie | Pitts | James Younger's friend. |
Ted | Pullet | A town cop. |
Charlie | Pym | A sheriff. |
Stube | Range | Walt Stockard's colleague. |
| Raster | A judge. |
James | Reach | The Methodist preacher. |
Frederic | Remington | An American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer. |
Mr. | Ringman | A janitor. |
Theodore | Roosevelt | 26th U.S. President. aka: Teddy. |
William | Shakespeare | An English playwright, poet, and actor. |
August | Shultz | Jeremiah's lifelong friend. |
Ron | Simonson | Jeremiah's acquaintance. |
Mickey | Spillane | An American crime novelist. |
Robert Louis | Stevenson | A Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer. |
Robert Louis | Stevenson | A Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer. |
Mighty | Stinson | Davy's fellow inmate. |
Walt | Stockard | One of the deputies. |
Nelson | Svedvig | A farmer. |
Jeff | Swanson | Reuben's acquaintance. |
Gary | Sweet | The butcher. |
William B. | Travis | A lieutenant colonel in the Texas Army. |
Dalton | Trumbo | An American screenwriter and novelist. |
Mark | Twain | An American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. |
Valentino | Vail | Reuben's acquaintance. |
Pancho | Villa | Previous owner of the clapboard theater. |
Jape | Waltzer | The man who houses Davy in the Badland. |
Daniel | Webster | An American lawyer and statesman. |
Johnny | Weissmuller | An Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer. |
Mrs. | Willis | A teacher. |
Owen | Wister | An American writer and historian. |
Jonas R. | Work | Veteran of the Great War and member of the flying corps in Leon. |
Bob | Younger | Charlie Pitts' compadres. |
Cole | Younger | An American Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War. |
Alfred | | Reuben's acquaintance. |
Beth | | A goat. |
Billy | | Mr. Ford's horse. |
Birdie | | Augusts' wife. |
Brit | | One of the horses. |
Christine | | Dolly's friend. |
Davy | | Reuben's older brother. |
Dolly | | Davy's girlfriend. |
Doot | | Augusts' horse. |
Draper | | A man who ran a few independent Jersey cows. |
Elvis | | The prosecuting attorney. |
Emil | | A pig. |
Etta | | Longabaugh's sweetheart. |
Eunice | | Pastor Reach's wife. |
Fitger | | Lanz's deputy. |
Frank | | One of James' friends. |
Fry | | A horse. |
Gerald | | A turkey. |
Henry | | A horse. |
Henry | | Peter's brother. |
Hensrud | | A farmer. |
Heywood | | A bank teller. |
Ivar | | A proficient biologist. |
James | | Cole's younger brother. |
Jarave | | A Bolivian lieutenant. |
Jesse | | One of James' friends. |
Joe | | One of the members of the church. |
Josie | | Peter's eldest brother. |
Laurie | | One of the horses. |
Mike | | A horse. |
Muriel | | The chief of the North Dakota State Patrol. |
Myrtle | | Pastor Reach great-aunt. |
Odysseus | | A legendary Greek king of Ithaca. |
Pugger | | Raymond's neighbor. |
Ramon | | Joaquin's little brother. |
Randy | | The Billy goat. |
Raymond | | Reuben's new acquaintance. |
Rembrandt | | A Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. |
Ricky | | A hound. |
Rip | | A dog. |
Robert | | Coach Heintz's son. |
Sara | | A young girl that Jape Waltzer is raising as a daughter. |
Speedy | | August's old friend. |
Swede | | Reuben's younger sister. |
Voltaire | | A French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. |
Williams | | A cook. |