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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
for Using With Chapters 1 - 6 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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5/4 |
Jack
Vanzandt |
Wealthy
big shot
from money made and lost in the oil and then computer industries. He wants
Billy Bob to help him with his son's legal issues. |
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5/4 |
Darl Vanzandt |
Jack's
college age son who broke a local Mexican teen's jaw and thinks it is funny. Jack excuses or explains his son's bad
behavior (which includes telling Billy that Lucas is Billy's "woods
colt") by saying that Jack's problems stem from fetal alcohol syndrome. |
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6/1 |
Billy
Bob's horse |
"A
Morgan" horse. He carries Billy and Pete to church. His name is first
used later in the book. |
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6/1 |
Pete |
A
young Anglo-Mexican neighbor boy to Billy.
Billy
likes to be a good friend to him. |
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