| Miss | Ada | Miss Sophia's mother. |
| Bob | Archer | The sheriff. |
| Mrs. | Beidecker | A schoolteacher. |
| Garett | Bligh | Kathleen's husband. |
| Kathleen | Bligh | Alice's neighbor. |
| Isabelle | Brady | One of the WPA council. |
| Mr. | Chips | Owner of a Brookfield School. |
| Miss | Christina | Dolores's doll. |
| Mrs. | Cornish | Margery's friend. |
| Officer | Dalton | A police officer. |
| Henry | Denhardt | A criminal. |
| Officer | Dulles | A Virginian police officer. |
| Miss | Evangeline | Dolores's doll. |
| Jenny | Fitzwalter | Alice's playmate. |
| Peggy | Foreman | Bennett's childhood lover. |
| Jim | Forrester | One of the town elders. |
| Dr. | Garnett | A Doctor. |
| Petunia | Grant | The schoolmaster. One of the clients. |
| Frederick | Guisler | The horse dealer. |
| Sven | Gustavsson | Margery's lover. |
| F. | Homer | One of the clients. |
| Jim | Homer | Margery's acquaintance. |
| Mae | Homer | Jim's wife. |
| Sophia | Kenworth | Margery's old friend. One of the librarians. |
| William | Kenworth | William's sister. |
| Tex | Lafayette | A singer. |
| Mrs. | Lowe | Bennett's acquaintance. |
| Bill | McCullough | The man who killed Frank. |
| Clem | McCullough | Margery's enemy. |
| Daniel | McGraw | The Union organiser. |
| Mack | McGuire | A handsome cowboy. |
| Dan | Meakins | The local blacksmith. |
| Chet | Mitchell | A drunkard. |
| Michael | Murphy | One of the town elders. |
| Lena | Nofcier | Chairman of library service for the Kentucky PTA. |
| Frank | O'Hare | Margery's father. |
| Jack | O'Hare | Margery's brother. |
| Margery | O'Hare | A horse pack librarian. |
| Papaw | O'Hare | Margery's grandmother. |
| Mrs. | Pfeiffer | Sven's lover. |
| Beth | Pinker | One of the librarians. |
| Bryn | Pinker | Beth's little brother. |
| Henry | Porteous | One of the WPA members. |
| Mr. | Rand | The owner of a picture house. |
| Mrs. | Roosevelt | The First Lady of the United States. |
| Mrs. | Schmidt | A tea café owner. |
| Pete | Schrager | Bennett's friend. |
| Ed | Siddly | The Union organizer. |
| George | Simmonds | One of the WPA members. |
| Sam | Torrance | One of the town elders. |
| Alice W. | Van Cleve | Bennett's wife. Margery's friend. |
| Dolores | Van Cleve | Bennett's mother. |
| Bennett | Van Cleve Jr. | Alice's husband. |
| Bennett | Van Cleve Sr. | Bennett's father. Aka: Geoff. |
| Pastor | Willoughby | The church pastor. |
| Annie | | Bennett and Alice's housekeeper. |
| Benjamin | | Sofia's former lover. |
| Bluey | | Sven's dog. |
| Charley | | Margery's mule. |
| Gideon | | Alice's brother. |
| Harriet | | Alice's aunt. |
| Hatch | | The governor. |
| Henry | | The man who flirted with Alice. |
| Hoffman | | A mining company owner. |
| Jean | | Margery's bedbound sister. |
| Lina | | Beth's aunt. |
| McIntosh | | The church pastor. |
| Molly | | The cashier at Nice and Quick. |
| Nancy | | Margery's neighbor. |
| Pamela | | Pastor McIntosh's sister. |
| Patch | | Mr. Guisler's old horse. |
| Scooter | | Beth's horse. |
