Other characters include Dr. Kildeer (the tribal medicine man), Treaclefoot (Plum's faithful horse) and Pudding Bison (a 'marvellous' creature who eats anything – also featuring in spin-off strips Baby Face Finlayson and The Three Bears).

The comic strip employed a caricature of English language spoken by American Indians, notably replacing the word "the" with "um".

The strip originally finished in 1986, but it continued to appear in the Beano annuals up to 1994, and reappeared for a short time in 1998 under the name 'The Legend of Little Plum', drawn by Tom Paterson.

The strip was finally dropped in 2006 when Hunt Emerson started drawing Ratz, though he has since appeared in BeanoMAX and in the 2009 Beano Annual.

After a brief absence, Little Plum returned to The Beano every week as a 6 panel half page strip, drawn by Hunt Emerson and written by ex-Dandy artist Stu Munro after the pair collaborated on a revival of The Nibblers.