Buck Thorpe
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Buck Thorpe
Sort Name:
Thorpe, Buck
AKA:
Jackson and Longstreet Fentry
Bucksnort
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Poor White
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Born-and-Dies
First Mentioned:
Cause of Death:
Murder
Real?:
No
Biography:
Buck Thorpe (who was named "Jackson and Longstreet Fentry" for the first three years of his life, 100) is the young man whom Bookwright shoots for seducing his seventeen-year-old daughter. Born to a homeless poor-white woman given shelter by Jackson Fentry, he is raised by Fentry until age three, when he is reclaimed by his mother's family, the Thorpes. He grows up to be the ne'er do well Buck who appears in Frenchman's Bend "from nowhere," and is described as "a brawler, a gambler," a moonshiner and a cattle thief (90).
Note:
CUT: Jackson Fentry's refusal to acquit Bookwright, due to love for his deceased adopted son, is the 'mystery' investigated by Gavin Stevens and Chick Mallison.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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