Tin Woodman
Baum's successors in writing the series tended to use the Tin Woodman as a minor character, still ruling the Winkie Country but not governing the stories' outcome. Two exceptions to this pattern are "Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz", by Ruth Plumly Thompson, and "Lucky Bucky in Oz", by John R. Neill. The biggest exception is in Rachel Cosgrove's "The Hidden Valley of Oz", in which the Tin Woodman leads the forces in the defeat of Terp the Terrible and cuts down the Magic Muffin Tree that gives Terp his great size.