Light Brown Genuine Leather Belt Buckle with Traditional Flying Eagle Image.

This is a quality belt buckle! Hand crafted from top quality leather. The metal inside holds the shape and the surface is made of firm leather. The oval buckle holds the textured image of the traditional flying eagle. This leather belt buckle is 3-3/4" long and 2-3/4" wide. The keeper is 1-1/2" wide. The shading of the belt buckles is light brown. You will be receiving one of the items in the pictures below.

"Birds have always been important to the Indian because they go as they wish, they light where they may, they're free. The eagle flies highest in the sky of all birds and so he is nearest to the Creator, and his feather is the most sacred of all." (Seminole)

The cowboy was born in 1866 with the first herd of Texas longhorns. They trailed across hundreds of miles of wild and dangerous country, filled with predators and hostile Indians, to the wide open town of Abilene, which was created by the Kansas Pacific Railroad as the western frontier railhead for shipping cattle East. From then 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 as 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. Cow-gathering was a challenge, but getting a herd all the way to the Kansas railroad paid big. Early cowboys had very little food (mostly corn meal and salted bacon), used homemade saddles and chaps, 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. A saddle blanket and a coat made up the Texas trail bed. The twelve-inch-barrel Colt was necessary equipment. Strong, lightweight and wiry men who persevered and were loyal defined a new American spirit of freedom and independence. Mothers shared great pride in seeing their sons grow up to be cowboys.