VINTAGE SADDLE BUCKAROO

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VINTAGE SADDLE BUCKAROO:
$227.50

Vintage saddle 14 in seat 5.5 in cantle from RATTAN SADDLERY ND like from 20s era .. cool Western buckaroo rig with a high cantle .great for the western motif room or refurbish it and put some more years and tales in it..shipping is 50 to US only..more pics tell me let her buck boysFound this write up about Rattan Saddle company >>>>>>>>Several types of saddles were popular in the 1880\'s. A
saddle with either a Cheyenne (double rigged) or a Visalia
(single rie;ged) tree could be purchased for about $3).00 to
22h.
$hO.OO in 1887. The Collins made saddles were also quite pop-
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ular in the ·eighties. It too, was a double rig saddle. These
early saddles were made by lacing the wood parts of the tree
together with rawhide, alltwing the rav-rhide to shrink iron hard,
then covering the tree with rawhide, and finally covering the
whole with oak tanned leather.
The first ma,jor supplier of saddles in the Medora region
was the saddlery firm of the Moran Brothers at Miles City, Mon-
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tana. Many of the Moran saddles were made t>o order, others were
made up in advance, and individual tastes ~nd variations in
rigging desired b;>r the cowboys could be fitted to any saddle.The
Rattan Saddlery Shop, located in 7 Dickinson, east of Medora,
also supplied many saddles and other items,,of horse gear to the
cowboys.
Two goo~ examples of the saddles used by cowpunchers around
11edora in th~ eighties are now on deposit i.n the collections