The Merry Pranksters were a group of friends and family associated with Ken Kesey. Many lived together communally in a house La Honda, CA, and several traveled together across the country in Furthur in 1964.
By varying accounts, the original Pranksters included
- Ken “Intrepid Traveler” Babbs
- Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Adams
- Ron “Hassler” Bevirt
- Page “Zealot” Browning
- Jane “Generally Famished” Burton
- Neal “Speed Limit” Cassady
- Mike “Camera Man” Hagen
- Denise “Mary Microgram” Kaufmann
- Paula “Gretchen Fetchin” Sundsten
- George “Hardly Visible” Walker
- Sandy “Dis-Mount” Lehmann-Haupt
- Kathy “Stark Naked” Casano
- John “Sometimes Missing” Babbs
- Steve “Zonker” Lambrecht