Characters
Lucky Luke — A cowboy who can shoot faster than his own shadow. One of the most respected cowboys on the plains.
Henry Dalton — Deceased uncle to The Dalton Brothers. Amassed a fortune from his life of crime. Was found guilty and hanged for his crimes.
Ming Li Foo — A Chinese laundryman who runs a laundry in Grass City.
Sam Game — A former notorious gambler, who has become a clergyman. He runs his own church with a congregation, made up entirely of elderly women.
Thadeus Collins — The warden of a jail, whose entire prison population has tunneled out to freedom. Collins thought of his prisoners as his children, and their 'abandonment' leaves him in great anguish.
Bud Bugman — A train driver.
Snake Feather — (Plume de Serpent in the original French language version.) A Native American witch doctor.
Dr. Aldous Smith — A travelling quack doctor who claims to be in possession of a cure-all miracle elixir. The character's appearance is modeled after the actor, W.C. Fields.
Mathias Bones — An undertaker, usually accompanied by a vulture, who is constantly looking out for his next customer. The appearance of this character is modeled on that of the actor, Boris Karloff.
Tom O'Connor — An old miner who supposedly disappeared into his gold mine, and is presumed dead.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that honor. Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga—stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)