On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 02:17:43 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <
fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
Horses were likely the first "vehicle" humans used to travel faster and farther,
Interesting sentence...likely...faster...farther. There might be some
false reasoning (but when exactly did we start riding them?)...see
below. Are saddles required to "travel faster and farther." Like
where were they going to go, and for what purpose?
The Use of Saddles by American Indians
THAT Indians always rode their horses bareback is a common American
belief, but one without basis in fact.
All of the tribes that had horses used saddles. The saddles were of
two main types; the earliest used and most common was patterned after
that of the Spaniards. It had a wooden tree and iron or
rawhide-covered wooden stirrups.
...
When Indians wanted to extend their horses to the limit, they
sometimes rode with nothing but a robe over the animal's back.
...
...
From the above accounts it can be inferred that the Indians of the
horse-using tribes of the present United States generally used
saddles. Probably the widespread belief that Indians were bareback
riders grew out of some artists' conceptions of Indian horsemen. The
Hollywood version of the American redskin has followed the erroneous
notion that saddles were unknown to the Indians. Actually there were
very skillful saddle-makers among all the horse-using tribes, and very
few instances when Indians chose to ride without saddles.
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1324&context=nmhr
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