# Smoky the Cowhorse — Character guide

> Key figures in Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James.

- [Smoky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/smoky_the_cowhorse_se/characters/smoky.md): Smoky begins life on the sunny side of a low prairie butte with nothing but his mammy for company, then passes through the hands of bronc twisters, roundup wagons, and remudas until he becomes a top cowhorse. What sets h
- [Clint](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/smoky_the_cowhorse_se/characters/clint.md): Clint is the cowboy who gentles Smoky, and he does it less by force than by watching: he notices when the colt stops eating, decides to lay off him for a day, and grins when Smoky finally settles on fighting. Their bond 
- [Cloudy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/smoky_the_cowhorse_se/characters/cloudy.md): Cloudy is the seasoned horse in the remuda, the one who has already been through the breaking and the branding and the long drives, and he carries that knowledge the way older horses do, without fuss. For a colt as watch
- [Jeff Nicks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/smoky_the_cowhorse_se/characters/jeff_nicks.md): Jeff rides the outfit's territory with the habit of a man who has spent his life reading ground, and it is that habit that puts him in the right place when Clint is in trouble. He is not a bronc fighter anymore and says 
- [Old Tom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/smoky_the_cowhorse_se/characters/old_tom.md): Old Tom belongs to the working texture of the Rocking R, one of the riders whose days are measured in circles, remudas, and the long rhythm of the roundup. He is not the story's center, but he is part of the human weathe
- [The Cougar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/smoky_the_cowhorse_se/characters/the_cougar.md): The Cougar is the horse the cow country talks about, the one nobody could ride for so long that his name became a thrill in itself, and by the time a stable man hands him to a tourist under a borrowed name, he has alread
- [Pecos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/smoky_the_cowhorse_se/characters/pecos.md): A cowboy who briefly owns Smoky during a rough period.
- [Tom Jarvis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/smoky_the_cowhorse_se/characters/tom_jarvis.md): A horse trader who buys and sells Smoky at an auction.

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