| Dollie | Bellanger | A Mide. |
| Sandy | Benning | One of the security guys at the dock. |
| Jodi | Bollendorf | One of the girls who worked at Sam's Place. |
| Kate | Buker | One of Annie's friends. |
| Bob | Calhoun | An attorney in Alexandria, Virginia. |
| Ernie | Champoux | Meloux's great-nephew. |
| Charlie | Chaplin | English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer. |
| Calvin | Coolidge | 30th U.S. President. |
| Davy | Crockett | American soldier. |
| | Dougherty | One of the security guys at the dock. |
| Marcia | Dross | The first female law enforcement officer in the sheriff's dept. |
| Preston | Ellsworth | Writer and director. |
| Sally | Fellows | Schanno's acquaintance. |
| Edgar | Fineday | Henry's older cousin. |
| Robert | Frost | American poet. |
| Ned | Green | A young priest. |
| Einer | Hakala | A veterinarian. |
| Leslie | Hakala | A veterinarian. Einer's daughter. |
| Warren G. | Harding | 29th U.S. President. |
| Ms. | Helprin | Rupert Wellington's secretary. |
| Ernest | Hemingway | American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. |
| Howard | Hughes | American business magnate. |
| Joe | Krick | Cork's acquaintance. |
| Ed | Larson | The head of the major crime investigations for the sheriff's dept. |
| George | LeDuc | The Iron Lake Ojibwe tribal chairman. |
| Carlos | Lima | Maria Lima Wellington's father. |
| Maria | Lima | Meloux's acquaintance. |
| Henry W. | Longfellow | American poet and educator. |
| Aini | Luukkonen | An outfitter who operated on Iron Lake near the town of Aurora. |
| Henry | Meloux | A member of the Grand Medicine Society. |
| Woodrow | Meloux | Henry Meloux's uncle. |
| Sam Winter | Moon | Cork's father. |
| Edward | Morrissey | Henry Wellington's personal assistant. |
| Corcoran | O'Connor | A private investigator. Schanno's friend. Aka: Cork. |
| Liam | O'Connor | A teacher from Chicago. |
| Johnny | Papp | Owner of Pinewood Broiler. |
| Lane | Pflugleman | Sean's father. |
| Trinky | Pollard | Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police. |
| Pedro | Romero | A matador. |
| Wally | Schanno | A retired sheriff of Tamarack County. |
| Shirley | Temple | American actress, singer, dancer. |
| Robert Penn | Warren | American poet, novelist, and literary critic. |
| Alan | Wellington | Henry Wellington's son. |
| Henry | Wellington | Maria Lima Wellington's son. |
| Leonard | Wellington | Maria Lima Wellington's husband. |
| Maria | Wellington | Henry Wellington's daughter. |
| Rupert | Wellington | Henry Wellington's half-brother. |
| Dr. | Wrigley | Meloux's doctor. |
| Anne | | One of Cork's daughters. Aka: Annie. |
| Arietta | | A teacher. Schanno's wife. |
| Clyde | | A turtle. |
| Dilsey | | Cork's grandmother. |
| Dumbarton | | The neighbor's dog. |
| Emma | | Karl's wife. |
| Fran | | Jo's secretary. |
| Gloria | | One of the actors. |
| Goodkin | | Leonard Wellington's acquaintance. |
| Heidi | | Alan Wellington's secretary. |
| Hummingbird | | Maurice's wife. |
| Jenny | | One of Cork's daughters. |
| Jo | | Cork's wife. An attorney. |
| Joey | | A farm dog. |
| Karl | | A farmer. |
| Kitchimanidoo | | The Great Spirit. |
| Maanaajii-ngamo | | Ziibi-aawi's daughter. |
| Maurice | | Henry's acquaintance. |
| Melissa | | Joe Krick's wife. |
| Miskwanowe | | Woodrow Meloux's Ojibwe name. |
| Pierre | | The best tracker in northern Ontario. |
| Roslyn | | Henry Wellington's wife. |
| Sean | | Jenny's boyfriend. |
| Stevie | | Cork's son. |
| Trixie | | Schanno's puppy. |
| Virginia | | Sean's mother. |
| Waagosh | | A Mide. |
| Walleye | | Meloux's dog. |
| Ziibi-aawi | | A Mide. |
