slaughter wrote ably of an 1896 excursion between fort sumner, new mexico and kansas. likewise, salgy ritus mentions a journey she and her baby made up the trail with one of her husband's herds. >> parts of the american south and midwest, livestock was often trailed to market by dismounted drovers. drover who is trailed herds from louisiana to southeast texas before the civil war, rarely rode more than two horses on a drive and often had just one. but the wildest disposition of texas longhorns and the distances in topography of the routes north and west from texas during the post civil war era, however, largely precluded so few horses. on longer drives from western texas and southern texas, remudas of as many as four and even six horses per drover were common. these droefrs paid a lot of attention to their saddles, as you might imagine, if you were going to drive several hundred miles or even 1,000 miles, you would want what you sat on 12 or 15 hours a day to be as comfortable as possible. so in the early years, they were riding the famous mother hubbard saddle, which