The Revenant characters

Appears from the start

An experienced frontiersman and tracker with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Older than many of the trappers around him, Glass is self-contained, observant, and accustomed to surviving beyond settled territory.

Appears from the start

The field commander of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company party. Responsible for moving his men through country contested by the Arikara, Henry must weigh individual lives against the survival of the whole expedition.

Appears from the start

A veteran member of Henry's trapping party. Fitzgerald is capable and hard-edged, openly focused on his own survival and resentful of any delay that increases the danger from pursuing warriors.

Appears from the start

A young trapper in Henry's company, skilled but still inexperienced beside the older mountain men. He listens closely to the veterans and has not yet developed their certainty in moments of danger.

First appears in chapter 2

A huge female grizzly encountered while Glass scouts ahead of the party. Defending her cubs, she attacks at close quarters and inflicts wounds that appear certain to kill him.

First appears in chapter 3

Co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and sponsor of the expedition into the upper Missouri country. His commercial plans and instructions place Henry's party deep in dangerous territory.

First appears in chapter 8

The Gulf Coast pirate captain under whom Glass once lived by force. Memories of Lafitte and escape from his control form part of the earlier life from which Glass learned patience, navigation, and endurance.

First appears in chapter 24

The senior Army officer at Fort Atkinson. His authority becomes decisive when a private grievance reaches the fort and conflicts with military law and the protection owed to an enlisted soldier.