Showing posts with label Americas' horse tack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Americas' horse tack. Show all posts
Monday, August 29, 2022

Charles M. Russell - cowboy extraordinarie & storyteller

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Salve, Charles Marion Russell - great American cowboy artist - came to Montana from Saint Louis, Missouri at the end of the frontier era, ...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Custer saddle et al

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Salve, winter is upon us, time to prepare for Christmas and all the good time of the family holidays, soon followed by the New Year's f...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Old Sun's wife - Piegan warrior

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Salve, American Indians of the Plains are famous for their association with horses and horsemanship feats, but not seldom it is forgotte...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Charles M. Russell and cow-puncher horse

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Salve, I admit I love looking at the paintings and ink drawings by Charles Marion Russell (own two books on his paintings...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Breaking bronchos* in Texas

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Salve, let me take you to XIX century southern Great Plains, where Spanish horses (later crossed with other American breeds ) had been used...
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Friday, April 6, 2012

Anatomy of a spade bit

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Salve,   Wednesday I quoted Richard F. Burton's opinion on the western bit as he saw it in 1860, and then mentioned various authors ...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Richar F. Burton on the Western bridle

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Salve, yesterday I quoted the interesting observations  the famous British traveller Richard F. Burton made about the California saddle ...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Richard F. Burton on California saddle

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Salve, today I will point my 'virtual horse' towards XIX century and writings of one of the pre-eminent travellers of the United...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

La silla del vaquero -New Spain colonial saddle tree

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Salve, for many years I have been studying the books and documents related to the Spanish Conquest in North America. Naturally it all has ...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Reworking old sketches of the Great Plains horsemen

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Salve, I am practicing with different 'brushes' and 'pencils' in MyPaint and I have started reworking some old sketches  of...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Hokka Hey - in the spirit of 1876

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Salve, Just sketching - in the spirit of the Little Big Horn  Ad 1876 - 
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Greasy Grass -Little Big Horn 1876

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Salve, yesterday, June 25, 2011, there was the 135th anniversary of the battle of Little Big Horn that is the best recognized battle betwee...
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