The Outcasts of Poker Flat Characters

The protagonist of the story, John Oakhurst is a serial gambler who is exiled from the Old West settlement of Poker Flat along with three other people whom the town has deemed “improper”: the Duchess… read analysis of John Oakhurst

The chief antagonist of the story, Uncle Billy is a drunk and a suspected thief (he is believed to steal gold while other people are panning for it) who is exiled from Poker Flat along… read analysis of Uncle Billy

The Duchess, whose real name is never revealed, is a prostitute in the Old West settlement of Poker Flat and is exiled for her immorality. She is forced to make the difficult journey through the… read analysis of The Duchess

Like the Duchess, Mother Shipton is a prostitute who is exiled from Poker Flat along with Oakhurst and Uncle Billy. She is a crude woman with a vocabulary to match, and she often… read analysis of Mother Shipton

Tom’s fiancée and Jake Woods’s daughter. She and Tom fall in with the group of outcasts while on their way to Poker Flat to elope and begin a new life. At 15 years… read analysis of Piney Woods

A member of Poker Flat’s powerful secret committee that decides who gets to remain at the settlement and who is banished to Sandy Bar, the next town over. Wheeler, like many others on the committee… read analysis of Jim Wheeler