LIST OF CHARACTERS IN CIMARRON ROSE
In Order of the Chapter and "Section" first introduced
First Column: x = chapter number / y = section number. There are about 3 to 8 sections per chapter. Sections are separated by a space or a line, like for example, . Count from first section in a chapter for each section number.
Safe to Use With Chapters 1 - 2 Only
x/y	NAME	COMMENTS
- -	Billy Bob Holland	Defense Attorney, former Texas Ranger, and narrator of the book.
1/1	Sam Morgan Holland	Great-Great-Grandfather of Billy. Cattle rancher turned into preacher. AKA "Great Grandpa Sam."
1/1	Hackberry Holland	Great-Grandfather of Billy. A Texas Ranger. AKA "Grandpa Big Bud."
1/2	L. Q. Navarro	Billy's handsome former partner in the Texas Rangers, who died and is now a ghost who speaks to Billy as though really alive, throughout the book. [Think of this as Billy imagining what his beloved former partner would have said to him as events unfold. Eventually the full circumstances of L.Q.'s death will be revealed.]
1/3	Vernon Smothers	Lucas Smothers' Ill-tempered, legal father, and share cropper[?]. Billy pays him to work 70 acres of Billy's farmland.
1/4	Harley Sweet	The County jailhouse deputy sheriff, with a violent reputation. At 1/6, he reminds Billy that he is aware that Billy killed his best friend [a reference to L. Q.]
1/5	Lucas Smothers	19 year old accused of rape of Roseanne, a college girl who stopped in at Shorty's, a local bar at which Lucas often played with a band. Lucas has reddish blond hair, plays guitar and loves country music.
2/1	Mary Beth Sweeney	A new-ish deputy (patrol) sheriff. She takes Billy in a cruiser to the scene of the crime by the river, a small park with picnic benches next to Shorty's. He is attracted to her. Billy has her pegged as some kind of federal agent from the get-go: "Were you a law officer somewhere else?" I asked. "CID in the army." "You didn't want to work for the feds after you got out?" I said. She raised her eyebrows and didn't answer.
2/2	Marvin Pomroy	The Deaf Smith County Prosecutor. Very self-assured.
2/4	Jimmy Cole	The psychopathic killer in the cell to the right of Lucas, that mocks Lucas' fear of the electric chair. (Not yet named; at 3/2 we learn he apparently killed a little boy in Georgia.)
2/5	not named	Lucas Smothers' mother. She married Vernon at 16; moved in with Billy in Houston at 19 but Vernon dragged her back to Deaf County. She died a month after Lucas was born.