# Lost Face — Character guide

> Key figures in Lost Face by Jack London.

- [The Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/the_man.md): He travels alone through the frozen silence of the North, measuring each decision against the brutal arithmetic of cold. His confidence in his own judgment—in his ability to read the trail, to build a fire, to outlast th
- [El-Soo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/el_soo.md): El-Soo presides over her father Klakee-Nah's great house with an aristocrat's disdain for money and a diplomat's instinct for managing proud men. She is the one Indian woman at Tana-naw Station whom white men propose to 
- [Fred Churchill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/fred_churchill.md): Churchill is one of a party of stampeders racing to catch the Athenian before she sails from Dyea, but when their canoe is swamped and they miss the Flora, he refuses to accept the loss. Soaked, frozen, and running on no
- [Old Porportuk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/old_porportuk.md): Porportuk sits in the great house with shaking head and cold disapproval, advancing money he knows will never be repaid while his ancient fires burn for the daughter of the man he is ruining. He is a man of his word in a
- [Marcus O'Brien](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/marcus_obrien.md): O'Brien never wanted the bench, but in a camp where every man has a stake in the verdict, someone has to sit in judgment. He presides over a case that pits claim against claim and friend against friend, knowing that whic
- [Dave Walsh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/dave_walsh.md): Dave Walsh is the kind of man who shares his last flapjack and expects the same in return, which is why his partner's treachery cuts so deep. When he strikes gold, the news travels faster than he can protect it, and the 
- [Subienkow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/subienkow.md): Subienkow is a prisoner of the Nulato Indians, a fine-nerved poet and artist stranded at the far edge of the world after a long trail of bitterness from Warsaw. He does not fear death itself but dreads the loss of contro
- [Akoon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/akoon.md): Akoon is a hunter and former pilot who abandoned twenty-dollar-a-day work on the big steamboats the moment he saw El-Soo at Klakee-Nah's large house. He measures himself against other men and finds favor in her eyes, whi
- [Klakee-Nah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/klakee_nah.md): Klakee-Nah is the aging master of the large house at Tana-naw Station, surrounded by old comrades, frostbitten sailors, and the four rheumy-eyed slaves of his youth. He faces death as he lived — at a wild table of jokes 
- [Stephen Mackaye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/stephen_mackaye.md): Stephen Mackaye shared food, blanket, and hardship with the narrator — nursing through typhoid, starving on the Stewart, saving a life on the Little Salmon — before turning out in a way the narrator cannot forgive. The w
- [Makamuk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/makamuk.md): Makamuk rules the Nulato Indians who have captured Subienkow's party, and his people's handling of Big Ivan — men first, then women — shows a practiced, communal cruelty. He is the authority behind the ordeal that Subien
- [Spot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/spot.md): Bought for a hundred and ten dollars during the Chilcoot freeze-up, Spot looks like the finest sled animal in Alaska — until work begins, when his intelligence seems to dribble out of him. He has an instinct for divining
- [Lon McFane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/lon_mcfane.md): Lon McFane is a seasoned Yukon prospector whose easy command of the trail is matched only by his refusal to speak of the woman he once knew. He tells his hired hand to shut up with the same casual authority he uses to sh
- [Big Ivan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/big_ivan.md): A giant Russian miner who challenges Dave Walsh.
- [Tommy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/tommy.md): A young boy who helps Lon McFane.
- [Yakaga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/yakaga.md): A Nulato Indian who participates in the torture of Subienkow.
- [Arizona Jack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/arizona_jack.md): A miner who appears in the claim dispute.
- [Louis Bondell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/louis_bondell.md): A friend of Stephen Mackaye who is trusted with money.
- [Nick Antonsen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/nick_antonsen.md): A miner who stakes a claim near Dave Walsh.
- [Victor Chauvet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/victor_chauvet.md): An old French miner who owns a cabin.
- [Ferguson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/ferguson.md): A miner who appears in the claim dispute.
- [Mr. Indian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/characters/mr_indian.md): A Native man who helps the man in the cold.

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