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Sgd1942 Letter Dick Halliday Palomino Horse
(Item: 283 - 1942 LTR DICK)
Original 3 page signed letter from Dick Halliday, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of The Palomino Horse Association and Stud Book Registry, Santa Barbara, California to Lou Cherbeneau in regards to the former's extensive knowledge of the emergence of the early Mexican Charro Saddles in the Southwest. Halliday traces the origin of these saddles back to an Asiatic origin to the Moorish "Enjalme" or pad saddle to the Spanish conquistadores and missionaries like Padre Jaime who introduced the Spanish stirrup to the Southwest, and finally to the early Texas cattlemen. Halliday asserts that the modern Texas saddle is nothing more than a reduction and a refinement of the Mexican Charro saddle and that the U.S. McClellan saddle illustrates this origin. That the American "Cowboy invented practically nothing". He also points out that the saddle horn was found on early English Jockey saddles even though they were not used for roping; and that the Mongolians had used chaps before anyone. A Fascinating 8 1/2 by 11 inch letter full of history with hand written notes by Halliday; signed in pen D.H. Ex-collection Lou Cherbeneau Estes Park Saddlemaker and Western writer.
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