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"It's rodeo time, I've got to get it on down the road." Steve McQueen in Junior Bonner. Get ready to cowboy up, folks! Every inch of the sturdy heavy gauge leather has been hand stamped with old western fine line designs. It has a gorgeous, deep reddish-brown tone and is only slightly worn. It has just a few roughed up spots and a small tear in the seat. The seat is 14". This is a great saddle and has countless riding miles left in it - it's just been warmed up! It's a true collector's item! Don't let this classic old western saddle make like a tumbleweed and blow past you.

The cowboy was born in 1866 as the first herd of Texas longhorns trailed across hundreds of miles of wild and dangerous country filled with predators and hostile Indians. From that time on the big Texas cattle drives fed the market for a beef-hungry America. Six hundred thousand cattle came up the Texas trail in 1871 in herds of about 2,000 each led by a wild, reckless, and tough bunch of young men with great courage and fortitude. Huge numbers of longhorn cattle had multiplied in Texas after the Civil War, the result of few predators, few fences, and plenty of grass and water. They ran wild while Texas men went off to fight for the Confederacy. With the war over, a new line of work was needed for the adventurous and courageous survivors. Cow-gathering was a challenge but getting a herd all the way to the Kansas railroad paid big. Early cowboys had very little grub (mostly corn meal and salted bacon), used homemade saddles and chaps, had no tents or tarps, braided their own rope from horsehair, and bragged they could go any place a cow could and stand anything a horse could. Lay on the saddle blanket and cover with a coat was the Texas trail bed. The twelve-inch-barrel Colt was necessary equipment and boy did it get used. Strong, wily men who were persevering and loyal defined a new American spirit of freedom and independence. Mothers shared great pride in seeing their sons grow up to be cowboys when the west was young.

Top 10 rodeo superstitions

1: A saddle bronc rider always puts the right foot in the stirrup first.

2: Never kick a paper cup thrown down at a rodeo.

3: Cowgirls often wear different colored socks on each foot, for luck.

4: Don't compete with change in your pocket because that's all you might win.

5: Never put your hat on a bed -- you may be seriously injured or killed.

6: Eating a hotdog before the competition brings good luck.

7: Never read your horoscope on competition day.

8: Never eat peanuts or popcorn in the arena.

9: Always shave before the competition.

10: Never wear yellow in the arena -- it will bring bad luck.