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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| John Grady Cole | John Grady is a 16-year-old horseman who travels to Mexico in search of adventure. Read More |
| Lacey Rawlins | Lacey Rawlins is John Grady's best childhood friend and his traveling companion on his trip through Mexico. Read More |
| Jimmy Blevins | Jimmy Blevins is the hotheaded younger boy who follows John Grady and Rawlins into Mexico. Read More |
| Alejandra | Alejandra is the 17-year-old daughter of rancher Don Rocha and is John Grady's love interest. Read More |
| The Captain | The captain supervises the detention of Blevins, Rawlins, and John Grady after they are arrested. Read More |
| Dueña Alfonsa | Dueña Alfonsa is Don Rocha's aunt and Alejandra's great-aunt. Read More |
| Don Héctor Rocha y Villareal | Don Rocha is a 49-year-old Mexican aristocrat, the owner of the Hacienda de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción cattle ranch, and Alejandra's father. Read More |
| Abuela | Abuela, Luisa's mother, worked 50 years in the Grady household. |
| Alejandra's mother | Alejandra's mother lives in Mexico City and dislikes life on the ranch. |
| Antonio | Antonio is Armando's brother and works as a horse trainer and ranch hand at Hacienda de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción. |
| Armando | Armando is one of the head horse trainers at Hacienda de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción. |
| Arturo | Arturo was a member of the household staff at the Grady family ranch. |
| Mary Catherine Barnett | Mary Catherine Barnett is John Grady's ex-girlfriend; she left him for an older boy with a car. |
| Reverend Jimmy Blevins | The radio preacher Jimmy Blevins and his wife host John Grady for dinner during his search for the owner of Blevins's horse. |
| The charro | The charro pays the captain to murder Blevins in retribution for Blevins's killing of his brother. |
| Family on Estancia | The family at their estancia feeds and hosts John Grady, Rawlins, and Blevins for a night soon after they cross into Mexico. |
| Mr. Franklin | Mr. Franklin is John Grady's mother's lawyer. |
| John Grady's father | John Grady's father is a veteran rancher and the parent he is closest to; he dies while John Grady is in Mexico. |
| John Grady's grandfather | John Grady's grandfather was the long-time owner of the Grady family farm, the 18,000-acre cattle ranch John Grady grew up on. |
| John Grady's mother | John Grady's mother has forsaken the family farm, choosing instead to sell it and pursue her passion for acting. |
| The judge | The judge presides over the hearing for ownership of Blevins's horse after John Grady returns with the horse to Texas. |
| Luisa | Luisa was a member of the household staff at the Grady family ranch; she helped raise John Grady in his mother's absence. |
| Orlando | Orlando is the old man in the jail cell in Encantada. |
| Emilio Pérez | Emilio Pérez is the well-connected prisoner in Saltillo who solicits John Grady for protection money. |
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