WPA Slave Narrative Collection (1936)
Henrietta Lee—Ninety-two-year-old former slave
Grace Williams—Interviewer
Marshall Pass Stage Robbery
Grace Trumbull—A bluestocking from Chicago traveling the West to write her memoirs
Emily Butler—Margaret Parker’s alias during the Marshall Pass stage robbery
Benjamin Adamson—Callum Connolly’s clerk
Stella Elbee—Member of the Parker Gang; Joan’s older sister
Joan Jennifer Elbee—Youngest member of the Parker Gang; Stella’s younger sister
Toddy—Wells Fargo stagecoach guard
Jehu Lee—Wells Fargo teamster
Hattie LaCour—Former slave and Buffalo Soldier; co-leader of the Parker Gang (Henrietta Lee)
Margaret Elizabeth Standridge Parker, Duchess of Parkerton—British widow; co-leader of the Parker Gang
Thomas Parker, Duke of Parkerton (deceased)—Margaret’s husband; hero of the Charge of the Light Brigade
Horace Whatley—Miner
Timberline
Newt Valentine—Twelve-year-old son of Timberline’s blacksmith
Ulysses Valentine—Blacksmith; alcoholic and violent man
Lou Valentine (deceased)—Ulysses Valentine’s wife
Sheriff Luke Rhodes—Timberline sheriff who enforces one law: no killing
Rebecca and Harvey Reynolds—Owners of the Timberline general store
Opal Steele—One of two whores in Timberline
Ruby Steele—The other whore; Opal’s “sister”; half-Chinese
Eli—Bartender/bouncer at the Blue Diamond Saloon
Salter—Stranger
The Spooner Gang
Jed Spooner—Outlaw; Margaret Parker’s former lover
Hank “Ought-Not” Henry—Jed Spooner’s lieutenant; safecracker
Domino Jones—Cardsharp
“Sly” Jack Fox—Pickpocket
Maurice “Scab” Williams—Explosives expert
“Dead-Eye” Deacon Jones—Religious fanatic
The Connolly Family
Colonel Louis Connolly (deceased)—Colorado militiaman during the Civil War; cattleman; owner of Connolly Enterprises
Dorcas Connolly—Colonel Connolly’s sister; Callum’s aunt
Callum Connolly—Colonel Connolly’s son; Dorcas’s nephew
Poudre River Ranch and Dinner Party
Zhu Li—Connolly’s Chinese cook; formerly worked for Margaret
Bohai—Her husband
Zeke—Cowboy
Governor John Routt and his wife, Eliza—First governor of Colorado
Nathaniel P. Hill—A gold smelter
Lewis and Dorothy Wilson—A dry goods proprietor with stores in Cheyenne, Denver, Golden
Alexander Bisson—Callum Connolly’s lawyer; helped Colonel Connolly steal Margaret’s ranch
Evangeline White—His paid companion
Denver/Colorado Springs/Cheyenne/Black Hawk
Claire Hamilton—Female detective hunting the female gang; former Pinkerton, hired by Dorcas Connolly
Dr. Alida Avery—First female physician in Colorado; president of the Colorado Woman Suffrage Association
Kaye Hunter—Suffragist
Ashley Perkins—Suffragist
Sally Dove—Colorado Springs prostitute
Rosemond—Photographer and portraitist
Portia Bright—Rosemond’s partner
Clay Cooper—Cheyenne sheriff
Frank Chambers—Owner of the Chambers Lodge in Black Hawk, Colorado
Lana Chambers—His wife; Margaret took Lana and her son, Zeke, in when they ran away from her abusive former husband
George—Pinkerton
Wilson—Pinkerton
Mingzhu—Ruby Steele’s given name
Yung Su—Denver tailor; Mingzhu’s uncle