Characters

Seamus Donegan

Cheyenne

Tall Bull (Tatonka Haska)

Feathered Bear

Breaks The Arrow

Big Head

Yellow Nose

Plenty of Bull Meat

Pile of Bones

Red Cherries

Heavy Furred Wolf

Pretty Bear

Bullet Proof

Bobtailed Porcupine

White Man’s Ladder

Wolf Friend

Two Crows

Lone Bear

Bad Heart

Standing Bear

Tall Sioux

White Horse

Sioux

The Whistler

Pawnee Killer

Army Scouts

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody

James Butler Hickok

James Curry

John Donovan

Bill Green

Jack Farley

Eli Ziegler

Thomas Ranahan

Pawnee Battalion

Major Frank J. North

Captain Luther (“Lute”) North

Lt. Gustavus W. Becher

Mad Bear

Civilians

Louisa/Lulu Cody

Arta Cody (daughter)

Mrs. Gustaf (Maria) Weichel

Tom Alderdice

Mrs. Thomas (Susanna) Alderdice (and infant)

Nebraska Governor David Butler

J. E. Welch

I. P. Boyer (trader @ Fort McPherson)

William McDonald (contract sutler @ Fort McPherson)

William Reed (clerk for sutler McDonald @ Fort McPherson)

Dave Perry (owner/California Keg House Exchange–North Platte)

Walt Mason (innkeeper—Sheridan, Kansas)

Dave Cook (Denver City Marshal)

Robert Teat (son: Eugene Teat)—owners of Elephant Corral

Nate Williams—horse thief

Bill Bevins—horse thief

Reuben Wood (contract sutler at Fort Sedgwick)

John Wilson—wagon-master, winter campaign, Fifth Cavalry

Soldiers

Major General C. C. Augur—Commander, Dept. of the Platte

Colonel Henry C. Bankhead

Captain Samuel B. Lauffer—Fort Wallace Quartermaster

Captain Israel Ezekial

Captain George Wallace Graham

Captain William H. Penrose—Third Infantry

Reuben Waller—10th Negro Cavalry