The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

Oh, for the good old days of the cowboy. Back when the horse was King, there was no internet (or electricity for that matter) and saddling your horse was so much easier. The saddling procedure itself hasn’t changed much over the past one hundred fifty years. What to put on old Dobbin’s back? That’s another story.

Back in those good, old, golden years of the cowboy there wasn’t a lot of choice what he strapped onto his trusty steed. There were several saddle makers, but in a given region, their output was fairly similar. In fact, you could tell where a stranger came from by t...