| A | B |
| Babe | He was a huge blue ox who could straighten the bends in the road. |
| Paul Bunyan | He was a huge lumberjack. |
| Brimstone Bill | He chewed tobacco as he talked about taking care of Babe's feed and shoveling his manure. |
| Ole | He was a blacksmith who made a yolk for Babe. |
| Febold Feboldson | He was a western scientist with uncommon sense. |
| Mrs. Feboldson | Her eyes "stuck out so far they appeared to be on stems" when her husband explained what he had done. |
| John Henry | He was a six-foot high steel-driving man. |
| Marthy Cannary Buck | She was a woman who dressed in men's clothes and rode horses and shot guns with the best. |
| Wild Bill Hickock | Shot while riding in a skirmish, he was saved by Calamity Jane. |
| Capt. Egan | A legendary man of the west, he was shot in Bell Union saloon in Deadwood. |
| Joel Harris | He was a tired man driving early in the morning but not tempted to speed. |
| Mrs. Kearns | She was a thin, sad-looking old woman wearing a shabby robe. |
| Laura Kearns | She was a young girl dressed in a flimsy dress. |