# The Mucker — Character guide

> Key figures in The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Billy Byrne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/billy_byrne.md): A Chicago gangster and second-story man whose raw nerve and appetite for adventure are tested against savagery, love, and the slow discovery of a better self.
- [Barbara Harding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/barbara_harding.md): A wealthy young woman stranded among scoundrels and murderers, whose respect and scorn become the mirror in which a hardened mucker first sees the man he might become.
- [Bridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/bridge.md): A sardonic, well-spoken American who talks his way through outlaw camps and revolutions, translating Billy's street slang into something generals and gentlemen can parse.
- [Mr. Theriere](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/theriere.md): A French officer and secret count who begins as a schemer circling Barbara's fortune, then dies a brave gentleman asking forgiveness of the mucker he once called a coward.
- [Eddie Shorter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/eddie_shorter.md): Billy's loyal Chicago friend, who rides beside him into the Piman hills and proves that the mucker's world of hard men still holds room for real partnership.
- [General Pesita](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/pesita.md): A Mexican revolutionary general in brass epaulets, ragged overalls, and bare feet, who mistakes Billy for a fellow outlaw and hands him a captaincy in a war he doesn't understand.
- [Grayson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/grayson.md): An American rancher in Mexico whose willingness to shelter strangers becomes a quiet test of whether Billy Byrne can be trusted among decent people.
- [Billy Mallory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/billy_mallory.md): A wealthy young suitor of Barbara Harding whose privileged rivalry with Billy Byrne forces everyone to ask what kind of man actually deserves her.
- [Skipper Simms](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/skipper_simms.md): The blustering captain of the Halfmoon who helps engineer Barbara Harding's abduction, then loses his ship and his authority in a single disastrous voyage.
- [Mr. Ward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/ward.md): A crew member on the Halfmoon who participates in the conspiracy.
- [Anthony Harding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/anthony_harding.md): Barbara's wealthy father, whose fortune makes his daughter a target and whose standards of respectability Billy Byrne can never hope to meet.
- [Sergeant Flannagan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/flannagan.md): A Chicago detective sergeant on Billy Byrne's trail for murder, representing the law that the mucker has spent his whole life evading.
- [Larry Divine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/divine.md): A smooth, well-connected suitor of Barbara Harding who is deeper in the plot against her than he wants anyone to know.
- [Miguel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/miguel.md): A Mexican servant or soldier in Pesita's camp.
- [José](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/jose.md): An elderly Mexican who aids Billy in Mexico.
- [Captain Rozales](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/rozales.md): A Mexican officer who opposes Pesita and interacts with Billy.
- [Oda Yorimoto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/oda_yorimoto.md): Oda Yorimoto presides over Yoka as its absolute lord, his authority so feared that his own samurai hesitate to enter a room without his leave. He keeps Barbara captive in the small chamber behind his palace, a silent, un
- [Professor Cassidy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/professor_cassidy.md): A professor who appears in the Chicago scenes.
- [Patrolman Stanley Lasky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/lasky.md): A Chicago policeman involved in the manhunt for Billy.
- [Bony Sawyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/bony_sawyer.md): A sailor on the Halfmoon.
- [Captain Norris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/norris.md): A ship captain who aids in the rescue of Barbara.
- [Red Sanders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/red_sanders.md): A sailor or criminal associate from Chicago.
- [Oda Iseka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/oda_iseka.md): A Japanese headhunter associated with Oda Yorimoto.
- [Schneider](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/schneider.md): A minor character, possibly a sailor or Mexican.
- [Coke Sheehan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/sheehan.md): A criminal associate from Chicago.
- [Mr. Foster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/foster.md): A minor character, possibly a sailor or official.
- [Price Clark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/characters/price_clark.md): A minor character, possibly a sailor or criminal.

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