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Riding High

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A photograph of a cowboy sitting on a saddle. Saddle, late 1800s. Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, TSLAC.  The A-frame saddle with a Bingle or Binghom tree and a coarse Harmon rig originally belonged to Slick Young (b. 1/10/1853, d. 12/14/1922),

Cowboys, undated. Color slides and transparencies, 1991/077-419-1, Texas Tourist Development Agency Photographs and Audiovisual Materials. TSLAC. View image in our Texas Digital Archive. 

Saddle, late 1800s. [Not pictured] Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, TSLAC.  This A-frame saddle with a coarse Harmon rig originally belonged to Slick Young (1853 -1922), who used it during at least one of his three cattle drives to Dodge City, Kansas.  John Finley, Slick Young's son-in-law, had the well-known Harmon saddle shop refurbish the saddle with new leather in the 1930s. 

 

 

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