| A | B |
| stockbridges | helped the Rangers |
| Beaver's Tail | Saxso's Great-Grandfather |
| Robert Rogers | The leader of the Rangers |
| White Man Talker | Saxso's nickname |
| Kiwakwe | Heart of Ice; The Winter People |
| Susannah Johnson | taught Saxso English |
| Saxso | gets shot in the shoulder |
| Worrier | warns about the attack on the villagers |
| Chief Gill | fair-skinned and blonde hair; ate a rattlesnake heart |
| Uncle Pierre | made a canoe for Saxso |
| Great Simon | gets killed on the river bank |