AKA "Hoss"

Actor: Richard Gant, ref: Deadwood

Concept

Mild-Mannered Businessman

Tropes

Don't want no goddamned trouble. Don't need no goddamned trouble…
Ain't had a drop of liquor in seventeen years
His expectations of ill-will/treatment by others are usually unjustified
Won't tolerate being called a liar
Came over to the region with the California Company group
Former slave, but he doesn't talk about that part of his life—he's implied he worked with master's horses

Category: Technical/Trade (Equines)

Professional animal-handling (horses); Basic veterinarian (horses); Basic blacksmithing; Can read/write and cypher "just enough"