Fictional characters are listed in italics.
John Henry Holliday, D.D.S., later known as Doc Holliday
Alice McKey Holliday: his mother
Henry Holliday: his father
Wilson and Chainey: brothers, born into his family’s possession
John Stiles Holliday, M.D.: JHH’s uncle
Permelia: his wife
Robert: his younger son, later a dentist
George: his older son; sent to care for JHH in Texas in 1877
Sophie Walton: his foster child; taught JHH to play cards
Martha Anne Holliday: JHH’s childhood sweetheart
Henry Kahn: a bad-tempered gambler; shot JHH in 1877
Mary Katharine “Kate” Harony: a prostitute; JHH’s companion
David W. “Dirty Dave” Rudabaugh: a train robber
George Hoyt: an inexpert assassin
Tobias Driskill: a Texan with a grudge
Billy Driskill: his son, arrested for assault in Dodge
Morgan Earp: a policeman; JHH’s closest friend
Louisa “Lou” Houston: his girlfriend
James Earp: Morgan’s brother, a brothel manager
Bessie Bartlett Earp: his wife, the madam
Wyatt Earp: brother of Morgan and James; a policeman
Urilla Sutherland Earp: Wyatt’s wife, deceased
Mattie Blaylock: a Dodge City streetwalker
Lawrence “Fat Larry” Deger: the Dodge City marshal (chief of police)
Ed Masterson: chief deputy to Marshal Deger; deceased
Marshal Deger’s deputies:
Morgan Earp
Wyatt Earp
Jack Brown
Chuck Trask
John Stauber
William Barkley “Bat” Masterson: sheriff of Ford County; half owner, Lone Star Saloon and Dance Hall
Robert C. “Bob” Wright: proprietor, Wright’s General Outfitting Store; member, Kansas House of Representatives
Isabelle “Belle” Wright: his daughter
Alice Wright: his wife
Hamilton “Ham” Bell: proprietor, Hamilton Bell’s Famous Elephant Barn
Chalkley “Chalkie” Beeson: proprietor, the Long Branch Saloon
George “Deacon” Cox: proprietor, the Dodge House Hotel
James H. “Dog” Kelley: mayor of Dodge; proprietor, the Alhambra Saloon
George “Big George” Hoover: proprietor, Hoover’s Cigar Shop and Wholesale Liquors; leader, Dodge City anti-saloon reform movement
Margaret: his wife; formerly the prostitute Maggie Carnahan
Edwin “Eddie Foy” Fitzgerald: vaudeville comedian
Verelda: his girlfriend, a prostitute
Jau “China Joe” Dong-Sing: proprietor, China Joe’s Laundry and Baths John Horse Sanders: a young faro dealer
Charles Sanders: Johnnie’s father, deceased; a black man killed in Wichita after defending his wife from two Texans
Father Alexander von Angensperg, S.J.: an Austrian Jesuit; Johnnie Sanders’ favorite teacher at the St. Francis Mission School for Indians, near Wichita
Father John Schoenmakers, S.J.: a Dutch Jesuit; superior of St. Francis
Brother Sheehan, S.J.: an Irish lay brother; taught farming at St. Francis
Father Paul Maria Ponziglione, S.J.: an Italian Jesuit, missionary to the Plains Indians
Captain Elijah Garrett Grier, U.S. Army: stationed at Fort Dodge, Kansas; owner of Roxana
John Riney: tollgate operator, Dodge City toll bridge
Mabel: his wife
John Jr., called “Junior”: his eldest son
Wilfred Eberhardt: a German orphan
Thomas McCarty, M.D.: a Dodge City physician and pharmacist
Nick Klaine: editor, Dodge City Times
D. M. Frost: editor, Ford County Globe
Dick Naylor: Wyatt Earp’s horse
Roxana: an Arabian mare owned by Elijah Garrett Grier
Michigan Jim: a quarterhorse owned by Mayor Dog Kelley
Alphonsus: the Jesuits’ mule