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I don't know if you've read Freemont's report to congress on his expedition to western Wyoming in 1842, but it might be of some use to you. I don't recall him addressing your particular question but his report is rich with details of daily life on the trail in that part of the country, including the...

There you have it. I'm not the only one. Nice story.

Thanks for the recommendation. I recently read Pares' "A History of Russia" and was struck by his sins of omission and have been looking for something else to fill in the gaps in his narrative. On another note, and I know of no supporting evidence, but I've always suspected that Prokofiev ...

I thought we already had a thread devoted to American presidents who rode but couldn't find it. Perhaps it was buried in another topic. Here is a short passage from William H. Seward's biography of John Quincy Adams: "When in the Presidency, he sometimes made a journey from Washington to Quincy...

Reading Bernard Pares' "History of Russia" over the weekend has entailed spending almost as much time with an atlas and google as it has in actually reading the book itself. Anyway, on one of those side trips this photo of a white Russian popped up and I was reminded of this thread. Kornil...

YOu know, there must be an obscure reason why, although there were half as many artillery saddles, and in as much as artillery saddles were actually used in the way while the cavalry didn't do much riding in that war, the artillery saddles seem to turn up more frequently than the cavalry-rigged one...

Maybe they're wrapped to accomodate the hob nail boots.

Couvi wrote:

Does anyone here know what a ‘Bob-tailed’ Discharge is?

It isn't in my dictionary but this guy has an explanation: http://ezinearticles.com/?Old-Army-Term ... &id=998349

On Tuesday nights through the month of September Turner Classic Movies is showing films made by Hollywood for the war effort. This week featured the Frank Capra series "Why We Fight" and some animated shorts. These movies were not made for viewing by the general public but for GI audiences.

Shooting while standing on the horses back was no standard training feature. It was done by a few troopers to show the high training level the remounts had reached. Standard training was firing a pistol mounted, but no rifle or smg shooting from horseback. Regards Tom Yes, of a kind with jumping je...

I took this photo in Payson, Utah last year. Though not as early as some of the replacements featured above ,this old 6-by is still in service. It is used to transport and store pipe and tools for a landscaping/paving outfit. I like the logo on the driver's door.
Sandy

These two photographs were taken in a corner of the cemetery nearby- once a part of- Fort Douglas in the hills above Salt lake City.

No metal, if you mean the galvanized banding one often sees on western bent wood stirrups. I don't know that that is never the case but the few that I have seen have been bare wood under the hood.

Sandy

Side view of same:

Here is a photo of the hooded stirrup after conversion. Note the bandsaw striations.

Nice painting.

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/issues/417012

Nice photos. Looking at some of them I hear Yosemite Sam saying "Whoa there. Whoa, I say whooahh..."
Looks like fun though. I say, bring it back to the Winter O's. Announce the new
category of competition, say, six months before game day. Shake things up a bit.

Ahhh, that hook. The little bent metal clasp. I'll guess that it retains the lash. It doesn't appear to be substantial enough to be a hanger for the whip. But I dunno.

The horse appears to be a bay of clay.

Fossilhorse wrote:Is some strange photographic illusion going on there? The guy in the foreground looks like he is about 4 ft tall?

Note that the cameraman is standing on the tripod, as on stilts.