During the development of Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, Hank Mayo and I tried giving Spirit a sympathetic friend at the army barracks named Old Fontenot.

He was a Buffalo Soldier that because of his age was now limited to being a groom for the camp horses. Fontenot had conflicted feelings about capturing and limiting the freedom of wild horses and Plains Indians, all in the service of a society that one time held him in bondage.

This put him in conflict with the camp commander. He was never used, but it's too bad, I always felt the character had good potential.