Buck

Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2012-05-14 14:24
Text: 
"Spotted Horses"
Character Key: 
Buck Hipps
Display Name: 
Buck
Sort Name: 
Buck
AKA: 
Buck Hipps
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Major
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Production
Specific Job: 
Auctioneer, Cowboy
First Mentioned: 
Varner's Store in "Spotted Horses" (Location)
Origin: 
Texas
Real?: 
No
Other Texts: 
"Centaur in Brass"
The Hamlet
The Town
Biography: 

Referred to repeatedly as "the Texas man" by the narrator (167), and once by Flem as "Buck" (173), the man who brings the wild ponies from Texas into Frenchman's Bend carries "a ivory-handled pistol and a box of gingersnaps" in his back pocket (167). The day after he arrives at Mrs. Littlejohn's, he auctions off the horses. At the end of that day he drives off on the buckboard wagon he swapped for the last two horses. Although he takes advantage of the men of Frenchman's Bend, he shows his sympathy for Mrs. Armstid by refusing to accept Henry Armstid’s bid. (In The Hamlet's version of this event, Buck has a last name: Hipps.)

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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