The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge Characters

Hugh Glass is the alpha-est male who ever did alpha. Translation: he's a manly man. In many ways, this dude is presented as the ideal person in The Revenant, a man at once capable of awful violence...

Captain Andrew Henry is a cursed man—or at least that's what he thinks.Captain CurseThough it might be overblown, Henry's fear that he's cursed is rooted in his real experiences on the frontier....

John Fitzgerald shows us the darker side of frontier life. A gambler and murderer by trade—tough racket—Fitzgerald came out west to escape life and all the mistakes he made along the way. Too b...

It's possible that Jim Bridger experiences more growth than any other character in The Revenant. After all, Hugh Glass starts as the toughest man of all time and ends as the toughest man of all tim...

There's no one quite like Kiowa Brazeau. A worldly man of prodigious intelligence and surprising sensitivity, he proves to be the secret ace in Hugh Glass's back pocket.The Babbler of BabelUnlike m...

Yellow Horse is a Sioux warrior who saves Glass's life by taking him to a medicine man who heals his maggot-infested wounds. Later, Yellow Horse escorts Glass to Fort Brazeau. That's a true friend...

The voyageurs are explorers of a different breed. While most frontiersmen are simply looking to make some quick cash, these fellows explore the frontier because they genuinely love the freedom, cam...

In one of the novel's most moving moments, Glass finds an old Arikara woman in the burnt remnants of her village, and he treats her with incredible kindness. It's a surprising scene that shows just...

William Ashley is the businessman who runs the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. We don't know too much about him, aside from the fact that he loves Cuban cigars, but what we do know isn't too lovely.Ash...