by Robin Furth
MEMBERS OF THE HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION:
CROYDON, JOHN (PIANO RANCH): John Croydon owned the PIANO RANCH and a good part of THE DROP. He also owned some small orchards. IV:187, IV:188, IV:199, IV:204, IV:251, IV:341, IV:466, IV:470, IV:545 (present 540–46), IV:558 (killed; present 553–58)
GARBER: This is the family that owned Bar K Ranch before it passed to the Horsemen’s Association. IV:188, IV:251
LENGYLL, FRANCIS (ROCKING B RANCH): Fran Lengyll, President of the Horsemen’s Association, was a blocky man with pale eyes, a net of wrinkles, and wind-burned cheeks. His handshake was strong and quick.
Lengyll owned the ROCKING B RANCH. He also owned the biggest Honda generator in Hambry. Although he pretended to be loyal to the AFFILIATION, he was one of the first of Hambry’s residents that Roland caught lying in aid of FARSON’s rebel forces.
Lengyll’s service to THE GOOD MAN extended to murder. According to Lengyll, PAT DELGADO—a loyal Affiliation man—was killed by his horse. However, this proved to be a lie. Lengyll killed him. IV:186, IV:187, IV:188, IV:198–202, IV:204, IV:251, IV:254–56, IV:313–14, IV:355, IV:385, IV:447, IV:459, IV:460, IV:463, IV:466, IV:470, IV:473–80, IV:483, IV:484, IV:500–502, IV:522, IV:528, IV:535, IV:540–46, IV:548, IV:553–57 (attacked by Roland’s ka-tet; 557 killed), IV:566, IV:577, IV:582, IV:584 (Alain has his machine gun), IV:589 (machine gun), IV:592
RENFREW, HASH (LAZY SUSAN RANCH): Hash Renfrew, owner of the LAZY SUSAN RANCH, was a big boozer. Not surprisingly, he was even larger and blockier than FRAN LENGYLL. Renfrew’s place was the biggest horse ranch in MEJIS. Like the other members of the Horsemen’s Association, Renfrew was a secret supporter of THE GOOD MAN. Like Lengyll, Renfrew lied to Roland and his friends about the number of MUTIE horses born in the area. IV:187, IV:199, IV:203–8 (206 mentions Excalibur), IV:222, IV:236, IV:254 (lies about threaded stock), IV:255, IV:355, IV:421, IV:459, IV:522, IV:527–29, IV:532–35, IV:537–46 (present for action), IV:556–57 (557 killed)
RIMER, LASLO: Laslo Rimer was KIMBA RIMER’s older brother. He looked like a stony-hearted preacher. Laslo owned the ROCKING H RANCH, where he secretly kept oxen. They were for FARSON’s use. IV:293, IV:561, IV:585–87
WERTNER, HENRY (BARONY STOCKLINER): Henry Wertner was the Barony’s stockliner as well as a horse breeder in his own right. He took PAT DELGADO’s job after he died. IV:187, IV:199, IV:204, IV:211, IV:341, IV:459, IV:545 (present for action 540–46)
WHITE, JAKE: White owned some of the apple orchards north of Hambry. IV:199, IV:251, IV:341, IV:473–80 (present for arrest of Roland’s ka-tet)
HAMBRY LOVERS:
ROBERT AND FRANCESCA: Robert and Francesca were lovers who made it into Hambry’s folklore. Francesca tried to end their affair, so Robert dashed out her brains and then clipped his windpipe. This murder/suicide supposedly happened in the town cemetery. IV:426
HAMBRY MAYOR’S HOUSE (SEAFRONT):
MORGENSTERN, CONCHETTA: A blade-faced seamstress. Her view of existence is that life is hard, so we’d all just better get used to it. IV:292, IV:310–11, IV:313 (blade-faced), IV:426
RIMER, KIMBA: Kimba Rimer was HART THORIN’s Chancellor. He was also the Barony’s Minister of Inventory. Tall, thin, with skin pale as candle wax, Rimer reminded Roland of Doctor Death. His voice was that of either a politician or an undertaker.
According to OLIVE THORIN, Rimer looted Hambry’s treasury, and what he didn’t give to FARSON he kept for himself. But no matter how good he was at lining his own pockets, Rimer was even better at making enemies. Once, on account of CLAY REYNOLDS’s swirling, silk-lined cloak, Rimer jokingly called the younger man sai Manto, an insult that also implied homosexuality. Reynolds never forgot it. Hence, when the time came to send Rimer on to the clearing at the end of the path, Reynolds took the job gleefully. IV:133, IV:139 (relationship to Hart Thorin), IV:141, IV:153, IV:154, IV:175–78, IV:184 (false papers for Roland’s ka-tet), IV:187, IV:191–210 (Hart Thorin’s party. Rimer appears on the following pages: 192–93 [gaunt as Dr. Death], 195–201 [196 joke about “The Good Man”], 204, 208), IV:211, IV:212, IV:213, IV:250, IV:251, IV:257, IV:260, IV:301, IV:308, IV:347–53, IV:356, IV:358, IV:367–68, IV:373, IV:377, IV:381, IV:402, IV:405, IV:406, IV:425, IV:443, IV:453, IV:460, IV:470–71 (killed by Reynolds), IV:476, IV:482, IV:483, IV:488, IV:500–501, IV:519, IV:537, IV:564, IV:585, IV:664
THORIN, HART: Horny Hart Thorin was the Mayor of Hambry and the Chief Guard o’ Barony. He was also CORAL THORIN’s brother and OLIVE THORIN’s husband. He and Coral co-owned Hambry’s bar and brothel, the TRAVELLERS’ REST. Thorin was anything but elegant, and often acted like a buffoon. In fact, the reader wonders why Olive continued to love this skinny and twitchy knuckle-cracker, especially since he couldn’t wait to take on other women.
Though he was as gangly as a marsh bird, Hart Thorin conceived a passion for SUSAN DELGADO, a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. By the beginning of Wizard and Glass’s MEJIS adventures, Thorin had already paid for Susan to become his jilly. Like other Hambry officials, Thorin allied himself with FARSON, though those he sold his soul to eventually murdered him. Thorin’s dog was named WOLF. IV:116, IV:121, IV:125, IV:126, IV:129–30, IV:131, IV:133, IV:134, IV:135, IV:136, IV:139–41 (relationships with Susan and Rimer), IV:143, IV:153, IV:154, IV:168, IV:169, IV:172 (and Travellers’ Rest), IV:176, IV:177, IV:184 (and Roland’s false papers), IV:186–87, IV:188, IV:191–210 (Party. He appears on the following pages: 193, 195–202 [195–96 described]; 197 with Susan; 203, 205–8 [Susan as his Sheevin, or side-wife]; 209), IV:211–13, IV:223, IV:236 (and Susan’s blouses), IV:237, IV:238, IV:242, IV:246, IV:250, IV:251–52, IV:278, IV:280, IV:285, IV:290, IV:299, IV:301, IV:303, IV:307, IV:308 (Wolf), IV:311–13 (lunges for Susan and loses his posh accent), IV:314, IV:317, IV:318, IV:331, IV:348 (involved with Farson affair), IV:351, IV:356, IV:360, IV:373, IV:377, IV:381, IV:405, IV:424, IV:426–27, IV:434, IV:461–62, IV:465, IV:471–73 (Depape kills him. Leaves Cuthbert’s Lookout and Farson’s sigul), IV:476, IV:482, IV:483, IV:492, IV:498, IV:500–501, IV:514, IV:519–20, IV:533, IV:537, IV:549, IV:561, IV:564, IV:569, IV:578, IV:585, IV:664
THORIN, OLIVE: Poor Olive Thorin was HART THORIN’s long-suffering wife. She was a plump, good-natured woman with an artless smile, and was one of the few people in Hambry that Roland really liked. Olive grew up a fisherman’s daughter and never forgot it. Even though her husband wanted SUSAN DELGADO as his jilly, when Susan needed to be rescued it was bighearted Olive who tried to help her. Olive was eventually killed by CLAY REYNOLDS. IV:191–210 (Thorin’s party. She appears on the following pages: 191–92 [described], 193 [described], 194, 195, 205, 208 [sad about Thorin and Susan]), IV:211, IV:212 (John Haverty’s daughter), IV:223 (parallel to Roland’s mother), IV:238, IV:257, IV:259, IV:292, IV:324, IV:405, IV:428, IV:457, IV:461–62 (nightmare about Roc. Premonition of husband’s death), IV:569–70, IV:577–78, IV:581–83, IV:585–86 (killed by Reynolds)
HAVERTY, JOHN: Olive Thorin’s father. IV:212
TOMAS, MARIA: Susan’s maid. IV:292, IV:306–8, IV:428, IV:457, IV:480–83, IV:537, IV:577–78, IV:581
TORRES, MIGUEL: A SEAFRONT servant. IV:405, IV:448, IV:481, IV:494–95, IV:522, IV:566–68, IV:578, V:166
HAMBRY SHERIFF’S OFFICE:
AVERY, HERK: Herk Avery was the High Sheriff of MEJIS and the Chief Constable of Hambry. He was a large, fat man “loose as a trundle of laundry” (IV:175). Like the other important men of Hambry, he had no real love for the AFFILIATION. SUSAN DELGADO shot him while trying to rescue Roland and his ka-tet from Hambry’s jail. IV:155, IV:175, IV:179, IV:180, IV:181–90 (181 described; 183–84 goes through Roland’s false papers; 185 ice machines), IV:191, IV:192–93, IV:194, IV:197, IV:226–30 (after standoff between Big Coffin Hunters and Roland’s ka-tet), IV:251, IV:259–60, IV:273 (and thinny), IV:295, IV:329, IV:359, IV:360, IV:362–64, IV:367, IV:423, IV:425, IV:432, IV:462–63, IV:473–80, IV:483, IV:502, IV:507, IV:508–13 (511 Susan kills him), IV:517, IV:520, IV:521, IV:523, IV:564 (
Susan blamed for his murder)
HERK’S DEPUTIES: IV:181–90
BRIDGER, TODD: IV:473–80 (present for arrest of Roland’s ka-tet), IV:508, IV:521
CLAYPOOL, FRANK: IV:329 (named by Jonas. Broke his leg. Jonas standing in for him), IV:462, IV:605
HOLLIS, DAVE: Dave Hollis is often referred to as “Deputy Dave.” Although he was only a few years older than SUSAN DELGADO, he was balding and wore a monocle. While she was attempting to rescue Roland and his friends, Susan accidentally killed him. IV:181–90, IV:192, IV:227–30, IV:259–60, IV:363–64, IV:367, IV:431–32, IV:462, IV:473–80 (present for arrest of Roland’s ka-tet), IV:508–13 (510 Susan kills him), IV:521, IV:564 (Susan blamed for his murder)
HOLLIS, JUDY: Dave Hollis’s wife. Her maiden name was JUDY WERTNER. IV:182, IV:185, IV:189, IV:287, IV:432, IV:512
RIGGINS, GEORGE: IV:259–60 (name mentioned for the first time)
TRAVELLERS’ REST:
CALLAHAN, BARKIE: Saloon bouncer. IV:171, IV:172, IV:176, IV:218, IV:349, IV:451–52 (at Citgo)
CAPRICHOSO (CAPI): Caprichoso was the Rest’s pack mule. SHEEMIE was the one who usually rode him. Caprichoso, in turn, liked to bite Sheemie. For page references, see BREAKERS: RUIZ, STANLEY (SHEEMIE)
COUNTESS JILLIAN OF UP’ARD KILLIAN: A whore who had royal pretensions. She maintained that she was from GARLAN. IV:214
MOGGINS, GERT: See BIG COFFIN HUNTERS: DEPAPE, ROY
PETTIE THE TROTTER: Pettie was one of the Rest’s aging whores. She wanted to change professions and become a bartender. IV:171, IV:173, IV:176, IV:213–14, IV:216, IV:218, IV:224–25, IV:336, IV:382–83, IV:403, IV:468–69, IV:470, IV:563–65 (present), IV:605, VII:220, VII:333
ROMP, THE: The Romp was the name of the two-headed MUTIE elk mounted on the wall behind the Rest’s bar. He had a rack of antlers like a forest grove and four glaring eyes. IV:171–72, IV:176, IV:213, IV:214, IV:217, IV:382, IV:447, IV:468, IV:563, IV:570, IV:610, VII:220
RUIZ, STANLEY: Stanley Ruiz was the Travellers’ Rest barkeep. He was also SHEEMIE RUIZ’s father. When Roland and his tet meet Sheemie in the DEVAR-TOI in the final book of the Dark Tower series, Sheemie is using his father’s name. VII:218, VII:220, VII:333, VII:391, IV:214, IV:215, IV:216, IV:217 (Sheemie may be his son), IV:218, IV:242, IV:382, IV:396 (Rhea mentions him as Sheemie’s father), IV:397, IV:447, IV:467–69 (His two clubs: The Calmer and The Killer), IV:470, IV:506, IV:563 (562–65 present for action), IV:605
**SHEB (SHEB McCURDY): Sheb played the piano in the Travellers’ Rest. In the 2003 version of The Gunslinger, we find out that he later became a piano player in TULL. See entry under SHEB, listed separately
SHEEMER, DELORES: SHEEMIE’S mother. Before she died, she was probably one of the Rest’s whores. IV:217
**SHEEMIE: The mildly mentally retarded tavern boy who helped Roland, CUTHBERT, ALAIN, and SUSAN defeat the BIG COFFIN HUNTERS and the rest of FARSON’S MEN. In the final book of the Dark Tower series, we find out that Sheemie later became a BREAKER in THUNDERCLAP. For more information, see BREAKERS: RUIZ, STANLEY (SHEEMIE)
THORIN, CORAL: Morose Coral Thorin was the Madame of the saloon and whorehouse known as the Travellers’ Rest. She and her brother, Mayor HART THORIN, jointly owned the place. Fifty-five-year-old Coral was a wild child in her youth and didn’t get any better as she got older. She just became more mercenary about it. Although she was attractive in a large-eyed, weasel-headed way, she had a hard streak. Coral became ELDRED JONAS’s lover. After he died and she fled Hambry, she became CLAY REYNOLDS’s woman. The two of them turned to bank robbery and were eventually killed for it. IV:171, IV:172 (described. Fifty-five years old), IV:178, IV:191–210 (Thorin’s party. She appears on the following pages: 191–92, 193, 194, 203–8 [we learn on 207–8 that she despises Susan]), IV:228, IV:249, IV:341, IV:347, IV:351, IV:380–87, IV:388, IV:389–90, IV:420–25, IV:434, IV:447–48, IV:449, IV:460, IV:466, IV:468, IV:489, IV:500, IV:505–6, IV:515, IV:519–23, IV:527, IV:532, IV:537, IV:545, IV:561–62, IV:566, IV:623 (Becomes Clay Reynolds’s lover and a bank robber. They are killed.), VII:333
OTHER CHARACTERS:
ALVAREZ (LLEGLYL’S MAN): IV:476
ALVAREZ, MISHA: SUSAN DELGADO taught Misha Alvarez’s daughter to ride a horse, but this didn’t stop Misha from spitting on Susan as she was carted toward the Charyou Tree bonfire. IV:607
BEECH, MRS.: Hers was the first mailbox on the edge of town. IV:144, IV:155, IV:158
DELGADO, CORDELIA: See DELGADO, CORDELIA, listed separately
DELGADO, SUSAN: See DELGADO, SUSAN, listed separately
FARMER WITH LAMB SLAUGHTERER’S EYES: V:210, V:211
HOOKEY, BRIAN: He owned HOOKEY’S STABLE & SMITHY, also known as HOOKEY’S STABLE AND FANCY LIVERY. IV:279–80, IV:282, IV:301 (in on Farson plot), IV:330, IV:336, IV:377, IV:386, IV:390, IV:427, IV:501, IV:512, IV:545 (present for 540–46), IV:556 (556 killed; 553–56 present for action)
HOOKEY, RUFUS: BRIAN HOOKEY’s son. IV:427, IV:501
McCANN, JAMIE: This whey-faced boy was to be HART THORIN’s stand-in during the Reap festivities. Thorin was too old to be the Reaping Lad. IV:292, IV:605
MEJIS COWPOKES: VII:455
OLD SOONY: He owned the hut in the BAD GRASS where SUSAN DELGADO and Roland made love, and where Susan was later captured by ELDRED JONAS. Old Soony joined the MANNI sect. IV:534
ORTEGA, MILLICENT: She was a gossip who stared at CORDELIA DELGADO and ELDRED JONAS from the window of ANN’S DRESSES. IV:328
O’SHYVEN, PETER: The husband of THERESA O’SHYVEN, he is described as “a vaquero of laughing temperament.” IV:485
O’SHYVEN, THERESA MARIA DELORES: Wife of PETER O’SHYVEN, she sold rugs in Hambry’s upper market. In her spare time, she licked corners in order to clean them. IV:485–86
QUINT, HIRAM: He worked at the PIANO RANCH. IV:451–52 (at Citgo), IV:484, IV:527–29, IV:532–35, IV:558 (557–58 present for action; flees scene of attack)
HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA ASSOCIATION
See TET CORPORATION
HANDS FAMILY
See CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS: OTHER CHARACTERS
HANSON, LUCAS
See PIPER SCHOOL CHARACTERS
HARE GUARDIAN
See GUARDIANS OF THE BEAM
HARLEM SCHOOL CHOIR (HARLEM ROSES)
At the end of the final book of the Dark Tower series, SUSANNAH DEAN travels through PATRICK DANVILLE’s version of the UNFOUND DOOR and finds herself in an alternative version of NEW YORK CITY’s CENTRAL PARK. There she hears the Harlem School Choir singing Christmas carols.
VII:807, VII:809, VII:818 (indirect)
HARLEY, MR.
See PIPER SCHOOL CHARACTERS
HARRIERS
See MID-WORLD ARGOT section
HARRIGAN, REVEREND EARL (CHURCH OF THE HOLY GOD-BOMB)
The Reverend Earl Harrigan is the preacher for the CHURCH OF THE HOLY GOD-BOMB. Although the rev is from Brooklyn, he tends to preach in front of the Vacant LOT on FORTY-SIXTH STREET and SECOND AVENUE. Harrigan, who is the twinner of HENCHICK, leader of the MANNI in CALLA REDPATH, is constantly harassed by OFFICER BENZYCK for parking his van illegally.
Harrigan is instrumental in helping CALLAHAN, JAKE, and OY when they appear in 1999 NEW YORK. First, he silences a driver who threatens to report Jake for drawing a gun in public. Second, he gives Callahan a pair of shoes (one of the Pere’s pair flew off during his flight through the UNFOUND DOOR). And third, he passes on the psychic message he received from SUSANNAH, stating that her tet-mates should go to the PLAZA–PARK HYATT before traveling on to the DIXIE PIG.
VI:43 (indirect), VI:258, VI:259–61, VI:307–20, VI:350, VII:90, VII:423, VII:503
CROWD: VI:309–11 (crowd grows when Jake freaks out), VI:315
BLACK MAN IN GRAY FATIGUES: This man witnesses PERE CALLAHAN’s sudden appearance into NEW YORK, 1999. VI:308
DRIVER NUMBER TWO (HORN HONKER): VI:310, VI:311, VI:312
DRIVER NUMBER THREE (LINCOLN): This bossy Lincoln dri
ver stands six foot three inches and has a big belly. He threatens to report JAKE for carrying a gun but Harrigan silences him. VI:312–15
KID WITH HAT ON BACKWARD: VI:310
SCARED WOMAN: VI:310
SHOUTER: VI:309
TAXI DRIVER WHO ALMOST HIT OY: See TAXI DRIVERS: TAXI DRIVER NUMBER ONE
HARRIGAN’S FATHER: Harrigan’s father was also a preacher. (Are you surprised?) VI:318
HASPIO, JIMMY
See BALAZAR, ENRICO: BALAZAR’S MEN
HATHAWAY, MISS
See DEAN, EDDIE: EDDIE’S ASSOCIATES PAST AND PRESENT
HATLEN, BURT
See KING, STEPHEN
HAUSER, FRED