Cowboy Skills by Stephen Brennan

Author:Stephen Brennan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2015-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

SADDLE DECORATION

The leather of the entire saddle, including the taps and stirrup-leathers, is often covered with handsomely impressed designs of leaves and flowers. A saddle, if so decorated, would cost, in the decades of the 1870s and ’80s, some fifty dollars. In the Southwest, sometimes not only was silver laid into the groundwork of the impressed designs, but both the horn and cantle were also ornamented with precious metal. Then the cost assuredly mounted. Ten months’ wages often went into decoration. At least one ranch owner had a horn and cantle each of solid gold.

Often the cowboy would decorate his own saddle with brass nails or rattlesnake skin, plastered flat. The saddle’s coloring was usually light brown; but sometimes, and especially in the less expensive saddles, it was cherry-red.

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