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Oldest saddle discovered at burial site in northwest China
Nice find!
https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/ol ... 081348180

WWI Footage // Colorized & HD Restoration - Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 1918
Some equine related images, including the very rare undercut wagon, M1918, I believe. There are none of those left in existence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2czhihfGyoo

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Do NOT go to Louisiana without mosquito protection!

Is that sort of an odd seat?

Sorry to see him go. May he ride into that peaceful sunset.

Note the manner in which Pershing is saluting.

Okay! Eagle eye! I was wondering if they were trying to pass it off as a WWI-era campaign hat.

Weapons of the Third Reich: An encyclopedic survey of all small arms, artillery, and special weapons of the German land forces, 1939-1945, 1979, by Terry Gander is an excellent work on this subject.

https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Third-Re ... 385150903

CHAPEAU STETSON CAMPAIGN HAT US ARMY ORIGINAL

For someone more knowledgeable than me, is this modern?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CHAPEAU-CAMPAI ... wtVhd4V7J

I was a museum curator for 31 years and that one took me by surprise. Very well done.

Excellent exhibit. Where is it?

Thanks, Kurt. I would appreciate it.

Does anyone have a good image of the proper spurs utilized with the U.S. Army 1902 Officers Dress Uniform? I need something quick and dirty.

A thousand thanks,

WOW! He has been there a long time!

Bob Rea (sp), a Society Member, was at the museum at Fort Supply. I haven’t heard from him in a long time.

Does Wyoming have a Camp Radziminski?

CAMP RADZIMINSKI

In September 1858 Bvt. Maj. Earl Van Dorn led soldiers of the Second U.S. Cavalry and First Infantry from Fort Belknap, Texas, in ...

There is also a Camp Augur in Southwest Oklahoma. It was a semi-permanent sub-post of Fort Sill.

“In 1803 the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Purchase, which included the future state of Oklahoma. Expeditions were formed to explore the area. In southwestern Oklahoma, in 1852 ...

Excellent!

Didn’t COL Albert E. Phillips, of Phillips packsaddle fame, come out of that unit, too?