Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-11-15

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All over North America, for MANY
years. Cheyenne saddles have been
famous. and every equestrian. out
side OF our cavalry and the North.
west mounted police Of Canada. has
either had his horse tricked ont With
Cneyenne leather or has wished he
mad The fancy work ON saddles.
holsters, and stirrup hoods that once
made Mexican saddlery famous and
expensive, long ago was copied bv
Cneyenne makers, who kent up the
sa1e and beauty Of the American
morse trappings. but made thcm 90
cneap - 70 b within the means Of
most Aorsemen. In the old days
vhen Western cattle raaged all over
tee plains and the cowboy vas In his
glory, that queer citizen would rasher
hove Cheyenne saddle than . best
girl; In fact TO b without . Chey-
sone saddle and . 6rst-ciass revolver
Vas TO b no better than the sheen
herders Of that era
when reporter Of the New York
sun found himself in Cheyenne the
oshcr day the first places he looked
TOT were the saddle makers shops.
he was surprised to find only one
snowy. frst-class shop Of this kind.
and. instead Of there being . crowd
IN front Of It. Of people from every
where between Hudson's bay and
central America, there was no sign
OF moro business than was poinr on
at the druggists, nearby. or the
stationers'. over the way. In one
way only did the reporter fird his
hopes rewarded; the goods displayed
IN the window were beautiful and
extraordinary. There were the clori-
GUS heavy hand stamped saddles;
there were the huge cumbrous. ia
paderos; there were the lariats or
'ropes" the magnificent bits that
looked like Moorish art outdore, and
there were the mule SINNERS" and
fanciful spurs. and, in short, the
window formed q museum Of things
that q cowboy would have -pawned
his soul to own. The metal work
was all such as a cavalryman once
declared it 1.-The most horse jewelry
in creation"
In the store went the reporter. and
It his work went he. He found that
the old trade that covered America
was dead AMI gone, or rather had
ianguished SO long and SO much
that the period of mourning for
II had gone by. Epgiishmen
and Germans now buy the fanciest
and best trappings to send abroad
to their homes. Han6-stamped sad
dies cost from $S5 to SIS, but $50 buys
as good one as q modest man who
knows good thing will care to use.
Cowgirl saddles were in view-sever-
al OF them-with rigging for side
seats and with stirrups made in slip-
per shapes. 1t is not that there
are really hall q dozen cow-girls in
the world or half a dozen omen like
the Colorado cattle queen or the lady
horse breeder OF Wyoming. but there
are Western girls who ride a great
deal, and they have fond fathers and
brothers and still fonder lovers: hence
the manufacture OF magnificent side
saddles all decked with hand stamped
patterns and looking as pretty as the
richest Bedouin ever dreamed of
horse gear being made. There 10
still . good trade in COWBOY outSss
that are ordered from Montana, the
Dakotas, Wyoming. Colorado and
Texas. and similar goods 20 to the
horse reaches of Nevada, Idaho and
Oregon. Moreover. as long as men
ride horses there will be trade in
fancy outfits for them.