| Saleh | Abregado | A sportsman. Nora's acquaintance. |
| Hadji | Ali | The camel driver. Lurie's companion. AKA: Hi Jolly, Filip Tedro. |
| Doc | Almenara | Nora's doctor. AKA: Hector Almenara Vega. |
| Sonny | Asterfield | The man who brought Nora to Pony Express. |
| Ned | Beale | Ab's old friend. An explorer. AKA: Edward Fitzgerald Beale. |
| Lloyd | Beecher | A geologist. |
| Harlan | Bell | The sheriff. |
| Avery | Bennett | Mattie's cousin. |
| Mather | Bennett | Mattie's cousin. Avery's brother. |
| John | Berger | Peyton County Marshal. |
| Mac | Calwell | Harlan's predecessor. |
| Kit | Carson | Ned's brother-in-arms. |
| Miss | Claver | The woman who runs Heart & Hand Club. |
| Fint | Colson | Missing. |
| Armando | Cortez | The professor. |
| Merrion | Crace | Owner of Crace Cattle Company. |
| Martin | Cruzado | The man who sent his boys to the flock. |
| Amada | De Almenara | The doctor's wife. |
| Haziosman | Djuric | Lurie's father. |
| Lord | Ellsworth | Nora's former employer. |
| Juan Carlos | Escondido | A merchant. |
| Patsy | Ford | The owner of the missing dog. |
| Sandy | Freed | A tolerable lodger. |
| Greek | George | Jolly's colleague. AKA: Yiorgis. |
| Paul | Griggs | The waterman. |
| Robert | Gris | Desma's first husband. |
| George | Hamill | Josie's friend. A correspondence. |
| Morton | Hole | A lumber-mill foreman. |
| Robert | Jenkins | The man who was robbed. |
| Reverend | Kincaid | Josie's father. |
| Emma | Konig-Bell | Harlan's new wife. |
| Ferdy | Kostic | The mailman. |
| Peyton | Landers | A Carolina prospector. Nora's friend. |
| Dolan Michael | Lark | Nora's son. |
| Emmett | Lark | Nora's husband. |
| Evelyn Abigail | Lark | Nora and Emmett's dead daughter. |
| Harriet | Lark | Emmett's mother. |
| Nora | Lark | Toby's mother. Emmett's wife. |
| Robert Cade | Lark | Nora's son. |
| Toby | Lark | Emmett's son. |
| Duena | Maria | Jolly's companion. |
| Donovan Michael | Mattie | Lurie's close friend. |
| Hobb | Mattie | Michael's brother. |
| Reverend | Miles | The current priest. |
| Sam | Mulvaney | A cattleman. |
| Richard | Night | Martin's tracker. |
| James | Pearson | The kid that Donovan murdered. |
| Colin | Phillips | A magistrate. |
| Walton | Pickney | The hotelier. |
| Dance | Prescott | The marshal at AZ territory. |
| Absalom | Reading | The cook. AKA: Ab. |
| Lewis | Riffles | The Miller's son. |
| Millie | Riley | Moss's wife. AKA: Millicent. |
| Moss | Riley | The Paloma Innkeeper. |
| Rey | Ruiz | A water-witch. Desma's 2nd husband. |
| Pedro | Sanchez | A criminal. |
| Gerald | Shaw | Lurie's military escort. |
| Bertrand | Stills | The printhouse owner. |
| Mico | Tedro | Jolly's cousin. |
| Frank | Tibbert | Beecher's colleague. |
| Long | Tom | One of the cameleers. |
| Simon | Velman | A press for Dakota Territory. |
| Ellen Francis | Volk | Nora's mother. |
| Lee | Walden | The cavalry captain who came through Fort Green. |
| Henry Constantine | Wayne | The camel owner. Jolly's boss. |
| Sara | Wright | Emma's handmaid. |
| Adnan | | George's bull. |
| Albert | | Nora's father. |
| Bill | | The Lark's camel. |
| Burke | | A dromedary camel. |
| Coachman | | Lurie's employer. |
| Desma | | Nora's friend and neighbor. |
| Elias | | One of the cameleers. |
| Josie | | Emmett's ard and occult cousin. |
| Lenore | | Emmett's sister. |
| Lilo | | George's soft face mehmed Halil. |
| Lurie | | Narrator. AKA: Misafir. |
| Maida | | George's camel. |
| Martha | | Josie's mother. Emmett's cousin. |
| Michael | | Nora's brother. |
| Saleh | | One of the camels. |
| Saurelle | | Lurie's new boss. |
| Savedra | | The Mexican scout. |
| Seid | | Burke's cousin. |
| Stambul | | Lurie's father. |
| Trudie | | Jolly's wife. |
| Tulli | | The great red dromedary. |
| Williams | | Beale's geologist. |
