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Why did some vaquero saddles have dinner plate-type saddle horns?

by | Mar 12, 2012 | Inside History

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Why did some vaquero saddles have dinner plate-type saddle horns? Glade Fawson Riverton, Utah My famous saddlemaker friend, Carson Thomas, of Wickenburg, Arizona, told me: “The large platter style comes on many early as well as contemporary charro-style saddles. Both types work very well for roping livestock with the rawhide reatas or maguey ropes used by both vaqueros and charros (who are similar to vaqueros—their style is a bit different). “The larger the horn neck, the more fricti


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