Bowyer saw his side come back to draw with a fortuitous late equaliser and said: "We have a young squad and the average age today in the starting eleven was 22, coming into a hostile environment, but they leave with their heads held him because they took everything that Burnley threw at us in the first half and grew into the game.
"I thought our second half performance certainly warranted a point. The goal they scored was a worldy against the run of play, but then our goal was a bit lucky.
"The age of the team, the resilience, the character and the spirit that they showed, we leave here very proud. We are building for the future and that is a massive day for them in terms of growing.
"Today you can't single anybody out, the goalkeeper kept us in it early doors and I'm delighted for Jake as he's made a mistake or two but that shows how well he has bounced back.
"They are young lads, they are going to make mistakes and it is how they react to that. I think they have done tremendously well today."
Sean Dyche came within minutes today of becoming the first Burnley manager to enjoy a win against Blackburn since the great Harry Potts. It's his third attempt, again the first Burnley manager since Harry to get three games against them.
All three have been 1-1 draws and anyone of them could have been won. Dyche knows how closer we are getting.
"I understand the fans' feeling tonight and I feel it myself," he said. "This was another chance to get that moment of history and I can't help but feel disappointed for that, but I'm delighted with the performance," he said.
"The moment is now, but where we are now, and following the loss of Charlie Austin, I think most of our fans would be disappointed to not beat Blackburn today, but in reality we are sat in third place after the match, in good shape and putting in some very good performances.
"I think most neutrals would be amazed if they had watched the last three games that we haven't won one, but there will be another day."
Asked about the red card for Blackburn's Lee Williamson, Dyche said: "It is what it is and I don't want to get bogged down with that. In the form Danny is in we'd have backed him, but their player took one for the team. It's the unfortunate side of football but it's the professional side of football and it happens.
"I'd prefer to look at our performance. I would imagine the stats were considerably more in our favour in the first half. In the second half they went more direct, looking for second balls to change the feel of the game and they did that for about twenty minutes when we couldn't get a grip.
"Then, as the game went into the latter stages Junior came up with a moment of fantastic quality and I didn't think we ever looked in trouble.
"Obviously there was a mistake and Rhodes read it and got a lucky break. You can't define luck. All you can do is work hard and try to push it in your favour, but overall, I felt we deserved to win and a word for the fans, who I thought were terrific today.
"They saw their side go hard again and find a way to be solid and resolute against long ball football at times. We stood strong and were brave and it took a moment of poor luck on our part to earn them a point."