Name: Gower (meaning 'pure one')

Age: four years old

Gender: male

Type (type of animal): horse

Build: strong; average height

Eye colour: light blue

Fur colours: ginger

Mane/tail colours: darker chestnut

Hooves: black

Muzzle: dark brown

Markings/Scars: long scar from behind his right eye and down his cheek

Parents: Fay and Nor 

Brothers: none

Sisters: Iola (although he never knew of her existence)

Mate: Christmas Tree

Foals: Fighting Spirit

Friends: Oatis

Enemies: the Indians

Personality: determined, brave, gentle

Likes: Oatis

Dislikes: battles, war and whips

Fears: whips

History: Gower left his parents as soon as he was old enough. He never knew of his younger sister Iola. Gower was found grazing in a man's field, the man caught him and took him to the Cavalry where they trained him to become a great battle horse. 

Gower fought in five battles. During the first, he met a young pack-horse called Oatis. Before that meeting, being caught up in any violence used to make Gower feel restless and miserable, but Oatis became his closest friend, always beside him in the next three battles.

But after the third war, Oatis had to retire from pack-carrying because of a bad arrow wound. Gower, not knowing that his friend's leaving was for good, waited for Oatis's return, in vain.

Gower died on his fifth and last battle, when an Indian brave struck his side with a Tomahawk weapon.

Related to SSOTC: Gower lived at the Cavalry Fort