# Deputy Wade Pruitt

Wade is Sheriff Pruitt’s eager, accident-prone nephew. He rides shotgun in the cruiser and works the radio.

Character · Fictional · Established

Stable ID: `southern-highway-1977-deputy-wade-pruitt` · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [Southern Highway, 1977](/field-guide/collections/southern-highway-1977/)

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## At a glance

- fictional lanky young man about twenty-eight, light skin, gangly build, big ears, short hair under a cap, clean-shaven earnest face, generic forgettable everyman features

- Eager, slow-on-the-uptake Southern drawl; repeats the sheriff and gets it slightly wrong.

## Appearances

- [Southern Highway, 1977](/research/johns-world/johns-world-new-1977-microverse.html) (context: [Southern Highway, 1977](/field-guide/collections/southern-highway-1977/))

## Sources

- Unpublished source notes: Southern Highway, 1977: character.json (revision sha256:7a18c09d5610742c930072c45ac56bf276fd13f1c692a240bb5f046bd7b4ef2b)

## Reference library

### Source reference

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Existing source reference for Deputy Wade Pruitt.

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