Buck Hipps
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Buck Hipps
Sort Name:
Hipps, Buck
AKA:
Buck
"The Texan"
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Sales and Service
Specific Job:
Auctioneer, Cowboy
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
A horse trader from Texas, Buck has a "broad, quite cold, wind-gnawed face and bleak cold eyes" that become "like two pieces of flint turned suddenly up in dug earth" whenever he looks directly at anyone. Wearing a "densely black moustache," he arrives in Frenchman's Bend with a "savage and recent gash" across "the left side of his head, obliterating the tip of that ear." At his hip, he has a "heavy pearl-handled pistol" over the top of "tight jean pants" into which his "belly fitted neat and smooth as a peg" (300-301). He is Flem's accomplice in fleecing the men of Frenchman's Bend, but displays a conscience when he tries to return to Mrs. Armstid the five dollars her husband spent on the spotted pony.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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