Horses, saddles and bridles (1906) (14764876555)

Identifier: horsessaddlesbri00cart (find matches)

Title: Horses, saddles and bridles

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: Carter, William H. (William Harding), 1851-1925

Subjects: Cavalry Horses

Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : The Lord Baltimore Press, The Friedenwald Company

Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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Figure 48. Showing bridoon attached to halter for use as watering bridle. The bits in use in the American army during the past fortyyears are shown in figure 49, Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8, are the varioussizes and shapes which were used during the Civil War and forsome years thereafter. The high port of No. 6 and the ring bit(No. 5) show that the troopers were taught that great severity

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Figure 49. Cavalry bits in U. S. Army 1862-1902. BITS 103 was necessary to conquer their mounts, whereas the very fact ofputting such instruments in the average mouth had the effect ofcausing the horse to become frenzied under a rough hand. Nos. I, 2 and 3 show the Shoemaker bit, which was in usefor about twenty years, and which was abandoned for the modelshown in plate 49 as No. 4 and also in figure 43. This is a verymild bit, having but one height of port for all. The only varia-tion is in the length of mouth-piece, which for the three sizes isfour and one-half, four and three-fourths and five inches.* It is observed that the bit and bridoon are used generally byEuropean, and also by the British cavalry. The accurate bittingand training of their horses is sufficient evidence to establish thegreat value of the combination for military purposes. In figure 50 are shown the British bits (No. i), the German(No. 2), the French (No. 3), the Russian (No. 4), and Austriancurb bit (No 5). The

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