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Title: The American boys' handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941
Subjects: Camping Camping -- Equipment and supplies
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a Center Fireand the Texas Double Chinch,and all those that I remember seeing had rather a short hornat the bow with a very broad top sometimes covered with asilver plate; the seat was also much longer than it is to-day. Fig. 272 shows a military saddle which is a modified cow-boy saddle, and Fig. 274 shows a comparatively modern cow-boy saddle. The up-to-date saddle of to-day has a bulge infront, not shoWTi on the diagram. In the olden days there were no societies for the preventionof cruelty to animals, and on the ranges horses were plenty;therefore, when one of the long-haired plainsmen, w^th hislong rifle in front of him on the long saddle, and the hea\ySpanish-American trappings to the horse, killed the horse byoverwork, he simply took off his saddle and trappings, caughtanother horse, mounted it and continued his journey; therewere plenty of horses—why should he worry .^ Later when the cowboy age came in, the cowboys them-selves on the Southern ranges used the Spanish-American
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^50 Pack Train Outfit SADDLES 189 outfit; the only blessing the poor horse had was the blanketunder the saddle. When the block wooden stirrups were abandoned and thethinner oval stirrups adoj^ted, tlie latter were protected bylong caps of leather, tlie dangling ends of which were silvertii)(x?d. The cowboys themselves wore heavy leather breechescalled chains (an abbreviation of tlie Spanish chaparejo).Thus with the feet and legs protected they could ride throughthe cactus plants and dash tlirough the mesquite countrywithoutfearofbeingprickedbythethorns,nomatterwhathap-f)ened to the horse. Not only did this leather armor protecttliem from thorns and branches, but it also prevented many abroken leg resulting from kicks by burros, mules and horses. The rolled coat or blanket, which the bronco busters onthe lower ranges in early times lashed across the horse infront of their seat, is the thing from which the bucking rollwas evolved, and the buckskin bucking roll, we are told, isthe daddy

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