# Cimarron — Character guide

> Key figures in Cimarron by Edna Ferber.

- [Sabra Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/sabra_cravat.md): Sabra Cravat arrives in Oklahoma as a twenty-one-year-old wife bred to defer to a husband she adores, hauling linen and preserves into red-clay wilderness. When Yancey's impractical enthusiasms leave the family in the lu
- [Yancey Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/yancey_cravat.md): Yancey Cravat is the charismatic pioneer husband Sabra adores and can't quite hold — a man enthralled by the drama of a plan but impatient of its mechanics. He asks dangerous questions about Pegler's death, charms every 
- [Cim Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/cim_cravat.md): Cimarron Cravat is nearly eight when visiting Venable relatives descend, and he disconcerts them by calmly explaining how white men broke the Indians' spirit and stole their buffalo. He has Sabra's dark eyes and Yancey's
- [Isaiah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/isaiah.md): Black Isaiah is bound to the Cravats by service and something closer to devotion, and he refuses to be left behind when Yancey tells of the Run. Denied, he disappears rather than accept exclusion, a quiet act of will tha
- [Sol Levy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/sol_levy.md): Sol Levy walks the western horizon bent nearly double under his pack, a recurring figure in the Cravats' yard and a small ritual in the town's slow weaving-together. Sabra waits for him to bring sewing-machine needles; t
- [Donna Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/donna_cravat.md): Donna is still small enough for a nursemaid and a baby buggy when her mother rises from a long illness and realizes the girl will never survive Oklahoma as a Southern ornament. That recognition crystallizes Sabra's resol
- [Felice Venable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/felice_venable.md): Felice belongs to the Louisiana branch of the Venables, the clan whose chests of linen and flashing sideboards represent the tradition Sabra left behind. She and her relatives call Cimarron by his full Spanish name, a sm
- [Dixie Lee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/dixie_lee.md): Dixie Lee rules her brothel with rules so rigid they are almost prim, offering hundreds of wind-bitten ranch hands their only taste of silk, perfume, and luxury. The good women of the Philomathean Society and the Twentie
- [Ruby Big Elk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/ruby_big_elk.md): Ruby Big Elk serves Sabra's household but belongs first to the Osage and their Mescal Ceremony, a claim she asserts without apology on the very afternoon twenty clubwomen are due. Her transformation into beaded white doe
- [Tracy Wyatt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/tracy_wyatt.md): Old Tracy Wyatt was nagged through his first marriage until he deserted it for a young and fascinating second wife, and the Wyatt money made the town forgive him. His oil tanks squat like grim Egyptian monoliths across O
- [Doc Valliant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/doc_valliant.md): Doc Valliant tends the bodies of a town that is growing faster than its streets, its laws, or its sanitation can keep up with. He belongs to the small circle of early settlers who remember Osage before the brick and the 
- [Pat Leary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/pat_leary.md): Pat Leary married an Indian girl out of the scarcity of women in the early Oklahoma country, and now he prosecutes Dixie Lee with a ruthlessness meant to launch a political career. He sees Yancey Cravat slumped in his ch
- [Jesse Rickey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/jesse_rickey.md): Jesse Rickey runs the linotype alongside Cliff Means, laboring late by the little light in the printing shop while the town sleeps. He is the kind of man others lean on and then push, useful for his hands and his vote, u
- [Mother Bridget](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/mother_bridget.md): Mother Bridget keeps a mission school for Osage children on the edge of the Oklahoma country, teaching those the new towns would just as soon overlook. Her work puts her at the moral center of the land question Yancey Cr
- [Cousin Dabney Venable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/cousin_dabney_venable.md): A refined Southern relative of Sabra's family.
- [Cimarron Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/cimarron_cravat.md): Nickname for Yancey's son, also called Cim.
- [Arkansas Grat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/arkansas_grat.md): A rough frontiersman from Arkansas.
- [Louie Hefner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/louie_hefner.md): A versatile businessman in the territory.
- [Mrs. Big Elk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/mrs_big_elk.md): Wife of Chief Big Elk, an Osage matriarch.
- [Doc Nisbett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/doc_nisbett.md): A doctor and his wife, part of the community.
- [Mrs. Evergreen Waltz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/mrs_evergreen_waltz.md): A pretty woman in the community.
- [Judge Sipes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/judge_sipes.md): A local judge in the Oklahoma territory.
- [Grandma Standing Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/grandma_standing_woman.md): An elderly Osage woman near Hominy.

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