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Peach Johnson is July Johnson’s sister-in-law and the widow of Fort Smith’s mayor-cum-dentist, who died at Jake Spoon’s hand. Peach is a large, domineering woman who won’t be deterred from her goals. She hounds July until he chases Jake into Texas. After Elmira runs off, Peach joins forces with Fort Smith banker Charlie Barnes and bullies Roscoe Brown into following and finding July to give him the news.
Peach Johnson Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Peach Johnson or refer to Peach Johnson . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 37
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He began to feel more and more of a grievance against more and more people. […] It seemed to him that a chain of thoughtless actions, on the part of many people he knew, had resulted in his being stuck in a cabin in the wilderness with a difficult widow woman. Jake should have kept his pistol handier, and not resorted to a buffalo gun. Benny Johnson should have been paying attention to his dentistry and not walking around in the street in the middle of the day. July shouldn’t have married Elmira if she was going to run off, and of course Elmira certainly had no business getting on the whiskey boat.
In all of it no one had given much consideration to him, least of all the townspeople of Fort Smith. Peach Johnson and Charlie Barnes, in particular, had done their best to see that he had to leave.
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Peach Johnson Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Peach Johnson or refer to Peach Johnson . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 37
Quotes
He began to feel more and more of a grievance against more and more people. […] It seemed to him that a chain of thoughtless actions, on the part of many people he knew, had resulted in his being stuck in a cabin in the wilderness with a difficult widow woman. Jake should have kept his pistol handier, and not resorted to a buffalo gun. Benny Johnson should have been paying attention to his dentistry and not walking around in the street in the middle of the day. July shouldn’t have married Elmira if she was going to run off, and of course Elmira certainly had no business getting on the whiskey boat.
In all of it no one had given much consideration to him, least of all the townspeople of Fort Smith. Peach Johnson and Charlie Barnes, in particular, had done their best to see that he had to leave.
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