The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
COWBOY HORSE JEWELRY.
The Very Finest Cheyenne Goods Now @
to England and Germany.

The Very Finest Cheyenne Goods Now Go
to England and Germany.
All over North America, for many
years, Cheyenne saddles have been
famous, and every equestrian, outside
of our cavalry and of the northwest
mounted police of Canada, has either
had his horse tricked out with Cheyenne
leather or has wished he had. The
fancy work on saddles holsters and
stirrup hoods that once made Mexican
saddlery famous and expensive, long
ago was copied by the Cheyenne
makers. who kept up the fame and
beauty of American horse trappings,
but made them so cheap as to be within
the means of most horsemen. In the
old days when western cattle ranged
all over the plains and the cowboy was
in his glory, that queer citizen would
rather have Cheyenne saddle than a
best girl; in fact, to be without a
Cheyenne saddle and a frst-class re-
volver was to be no better than the
sheepherders of that era.
When a reporter found himself in
Cheyenne the other day, the first places
he looked for were the saddle makers
shops. He was surprised to find only
one snowy, first-class store of the kind,
and, instead of there being a crowd in
front of it. of people from everywhere
between Hudsons Bay and Central
America, there was no sign of more
business than was going at the drug
gist's, near by, or the stationer's, over
the way. In one way only did the re-
porter find his hopes rewarded; the
goods displayed in the windows were
beautiful and extraordinary. There
were the glorious heavy hand-stamped
saddles; there were the huge, cumbrous
tapaderos; there were the lariats or
ropes" the magnificent. bits that
looked like Moorish art outdone, and
there were the mule SINNERS and
the fanciful spurs, and, in short, the
windows formed a museum of things
that cowboy would have pawned his
soul to own. The metal work was all
such as cavalryman once declared it
''the most elegant horse jewelry in Gre
alton"
In the store went the reporter and at
his work went he. He found that the
old trade that covered America was
dead and gone, or rather had Ian
guished SO long and so much that the
period of mourning for it had gone by.
Englishmen and Germans now buy the
fanciest and the best trappings to send
abroad to their homes Hand-stamped
saddles cost from eighty-ive to
eighteen dollars, but thirty-five dol
lars buys as good one as a modest
man who knows a good thing will care
to use. Cowgirl saddles were on view
several of them-with rigging for
side seats and with stirrups made in
slipper shapes. 1t is not that there are
really half dozen cowgirls in the
world or half dozen women like the
Colorado cattle queen or the lady
horse breeders of Wyoming, but there
are western girls who have to 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 is still
a good trade in cowboy outfits that are
ordered from Mon tana, the Dakotas,
Wyoming, Colorado and Texas, and
similar goods go to the horse ranches of
Nevada, Idaho and Oregon. Moreover,
as long as men ride horses there will
be trade in fancy outfits for them.
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