Boon Hogganbeck

Boon is a fixture at Major de Spain’s hunting camp. His grandmother was a Chickasaw woman, though as he text says, "he was a white man" - meaning that he lived among whites as one of them (161). He is described as “a mastiff, absolutely faithful . . . hardy, generous, courageous enough, a slave to all the appetites and almost unratiocinative” (161-162). Equally loyal to the De Spain and McCaslin families, he takes on the job of caring for Lion and risks his life to save the dog in "The Bear." By the end of the novel, after De Spain has sold the camp, he arranges for Boon to become the "town-marshal at Hoke's" (301).