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.
Final Complete List for Entire Book
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.
3/1	Temple Carrol	A private investigator who works for Billy Bob. She is a former corrections officer in Louisiana, and patrolwoman in Dallas. A jogger.
3/2	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)
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.
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.
4/3	Roseanne Hazlitt	The murder/rape victim. She lived with her aunt in town who strongly feels that Lucas is guilty.
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.
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.
6/1	Billy Bob's horse	"A Morgan" horse. He carries Billy and Pete to church. His name is first used in later in the book.
6/1	Pete	A young Anglo-Mexican neighbor boy to Billy. Billy likes to be a good friend to him.
7/2	Emma Vanzandt	Jack's loyal 2nd wife. Darl's step-mother.
8/2	Ella Mae	Pawn Shop Owner. (Her name is supplied a bit later in 10/5.)
8/2-3	not named	Man who slept with Pete's mom, hit Pete in the eye, and got dragged out of a bar by Billy's rope and horse. (Neat blond beard. )
9/1	Felix Ringo	A Mexican drug agent working with the "Feds." He was presumably targeting the guy that slept with Pete's mother and also smacked Pete in the eye. But Billy Bob messed up his operation when he hauled him out of Shorty's. Ringo seems to know of Billy and L. Q.'s (illegal ?) operation in Mexico, years ago.
9/6	Beau	Billy Bob's Horse. Named for first time here. Here, Billy Bob discovers the horse has been maliciously sliced in his stall. By whom?
10/3	The Rose of Cimarron	An outlaw woman in 1890s Oklahoma. Billy tells Deputy Mary Beth Sweeney that his great grandpa had a love affair with her. His head was turned "by the sweetest and most dangerous woman in Oklahoma Territory." Burke fictionalizes but it is based on a real woman named Rose Dunn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Dunn
10/6	Felix Ringo (again)	He has previously tried to get Lucas to drive a truck for him. The purpose isn't clear except that Billy warns Ringo to stay away from Lucas, and warns Lucas to stay away from Ringo.
11/3	Bunny Vogel	A college guy who came from the poor West Side but was accepted by the (rich) East End kids because of his football skills in HS. He was expelled from Texas A&M where he played on scholarship because he changed an exam score for freshman Darl Vanzandt.
13/1	heavyset fed agent	The heavy set man that came out of Mary Beth's apartment. We learn later that this is Brian Wilcox.* There is some confusion: is he DEA or Secret Service?
13/2-3	Roy Devins	He is "Neat Blond Beard" from 8/2-3.
23/2	Hugo Roberts	The newly appointed sheriff of Deaf County

Regarding Brian Wilcox:

15/1 first name provided by MaryBeth and Billy Bob says he's DEA

16/1 full name

25/1 Treasury Agents ransacking my house with Brian Wilcox in charge.

26/2 Even before the trial, but after her poor judgement regarding Moon, Mary Beth is not admitting what agency she works for. She does try hard to be a good soldier.

28/6 Wilcox’s cheap shot to Billy re Mary Beth

29/4 Mary Beth is DEA (stated in court by Mary Beth Sweeney)

36/1 Ahah! - It is a federal operation that may have involved both agencies: crystal meth (Justice Dept, DEA- Sweeney) credit cards counterfeiting (Treasury, Secret Service- Wilcox et al). This is 1997 before any Department of Homeland Security.