Characters
- Woodrow Call — Texas Ranger
- Gus McCrae — Texas Ranger
- Clara Allen — Gus's former lover, a storekeeper's daughter
- Maggie Tilton — Woodrow's lover
- Inish Scull — Captain, Texas Ranger
- Inez Scull — wife of Inish Scull
- Long Bill Coleman — Texas Ranger
- Jake Spoon — Texas Ranger
- Pea Eye Parker — Texas Ranger
- Josh Deets — Texas Ranger
- Famous Shoes — the Rangers' Kickapoo tracker
- Buffalo Hump — Comanche war-chief
- Kicking Wolf — Comanche horse thief
- Blue Duck — son of Buffalo Hump
- Ahumado — Mexican bandit and murderer
- Goyeto — Ahumado's henchman and skinner (humans, not animals)
- Tana — member of Buffalo Hump's tribe
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