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LIST OF CHARACTERS IN CIMARRON ROSE |
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In Order of
the Chapter and "Section" first introduced |
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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, |
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Safe to
Use With Chapters 1 - 4 Only. |
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x/y |
NAME |
COMMENTS |
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Billy
Bob Holland |
Defense
Attorney, former Texas Ranger, and narrator of the book. |
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1/1 |
Sam
Morgan Holland |
Great-Great-Grandfather
of Billy. Cattle rancher turned into
preacher. AKA "Great Grandpa
Sam." |
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1/1 |
Hackberry
Holland |
Great-Grandfather
of Billy. A Texas Ranger. AKA
"Grandpa Big Bud." |
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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.] |
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1/3 |
Vernon
Smothers |
Lucas
Smothers' Ill-tempered, legal father, and share cropper[?]. Billy pays him to work 70 acres of Billy's
farmland. |
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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.] |
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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. |
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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. |
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2/2 |
Marvin
Pomroy |
The
Deaf Smith County Prosecutor. Very self-assured. |
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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.) |
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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. |
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3/1
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Temple
Carrol |
A
private investigator who works for Billy Bob. She is a former
corrections officer in Louisiana, and patrolwoman in Dallas. A jogger. |
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3/2
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Garland
T. Moon |
The
prisoner in the left-hand cell to Billy. He is wanted on the murders of an entire
family in Santa Monica, CA, but the county knows that CA doesn't do the
death-penalty, so they are keeping him for killing an old woman in Texas.
(some details from 3/5) |
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3/3 |
not
named |
The
Sheriff. Huge
man, no more than 4th grade education, remained sheriff for 27 years.
Supports jailer Harley Sweet's violent ways. His name is mentioned in
passing, just once - at 16/4. |
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3/4 |
not
named |
A
witness in the park. An elderly black man with a thin white mustache
picking up trash using a stick with a nail at the end of it. Temple and Billy
learn how Roseanne arrived at the park the night of her murder and what
happened immediately after. |
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4/3 |
Roseanne
Hazlitt |
The
murder/rape victim.
She lived with her aunt in town who strongly feels that Lucas is guilty. |
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