Johnny

Name: Johnny Turner Appearance: Dark hair, disheveled across his face, dark skin, brown eyes. Dressed in a tattered shirt with a cape over it. · Character: Bold for his young age, but at the same time respectful of his elders and quite intelligent. · Build: Lean, fit, and definitely a fast runner.

Name: Margaret Turner · Johnny's mother. · Age: 48 years. · Build: Short, compact and well-built, with rounded shoulders and quick, jerky movements. · Appearance: Dark hair, always gathered into a tight bun, a weathered face with kind wrinkles around the eyes and a clean, albeit repeatedly patched, cotton dress. · Personality: Lively, talkative, and thrifty—she knows how to command and pamper; she is the only one in the family who has already managed to find common ground with two local tradeswomen.

Name: Harold Turner · Johnny's father. · Age: 51 years. · Build: Stooped, wiry and hardy, with large, gnarled hands—the result of years of working on rocky ground. · Appearance: A reddish-gray pointed beard, deep-set, tired blue eyes, and a washed-out plaid shirt that he keeps as his only "go-to" shirt. · Character: Silent, with a mind of his own, but good-natured; on the road he is used to making quick decisions, although in the city he feels like an awkward outsider.

Name: Samuel Turner · Age: 12 years. · Johnny's younger brother. · Build: Long-armed, skinny as a pole, with sharp elbows and perpetually dirty knees. · Appearance: A blond forelock sticking out from under a torn cap, a face scarred with cactus scratches, and a homemade wooden cannon tucked into his belt. · Character: A restless prankster and inventor who first shoots with a slingshot and thinks later, but is ready to stand up for his younger sister with his fists.

Name: Bell Turner · Johnny's younger sister. · Age: 6 years. Build: Round-faced, stocky and compact, with short, plump arms and legs. · Appearance: Light hair that always sticks out like icicles from under his father's cartridge belt, which is worn backwards, and gray eyes with a permanent bit of thistle fluff stuck to them. · Character: Quiet and very imaginative, who hardly talks to strangers.

Name: Conrad Black · Build: Short, very lean and fast, with the sinewy legs of a racehorse. · What he did in town: Cattle driver and skilled lasso thrower, performing in informal rodeos. · Appearance: Blond sideburns, bright blue eyes with a permanent squint and an invariable mother-of-pearl shirt. · Character: Playful, smiling and sharp-tongued, he loves to joke with newcomers, but without any malice. · Nickname: Horse. · Age: 26 years.

Name: Pepe Montoya · Body type: Stocky, with powerful shoulders and a short, strong neck. · Jobs in town: Cook in a cowboy hostel and a buffalo hunter who supplied meat to saloons. · Appearance: Dark-skinned, with a black ringlet mustache and a stump of a left ear, lost in a fight. · Character: Cold-blooded, very calm and almost never raising his voice, frightening in anger with his frightening silence. · Nickname: Fox. · Age: 35 years.

Name: Buck Weston · Build: Tall, stooped and wiry, with long, sinewy arms. · What he worked as in town: Blacksmith and visiting veterinarian at a cowboy camp. · Appearance: A permanently soot-stained apron, gray hair curling from under a torn hat, and calloused, abraded palms. · Character: Always grumpy and dissatisfied with everything in the world, but ready to treat any offender with a hammer. · Nickname: No. · Age: 41 years.

Name: Sam Rowley · Build: Short, stocky and wiry, with a tenacious grip forged by hard riding work. · Job in town: Deputy sheriff and head horse trainer at the Round Top Ranch. · Appearance: Weathered face with deep wrinkles and a scar on the chin, dressed in a worn suede vest and a wide-brimmed cowboy hat. · Personality: Stern in appearance, but actually fair and reliable, like a father who would rather keep quiet in a saloon than look for a fight. · Nickname: Shorty. · Age: 42 years.