Neither saddle was new, but both gave evidence of a master's pride in his gear.

They were well-preserved saddles.

They had the conservative swell of fork that told Luck almost to a year how old they were.

One, he judged, was of California make, or at least came from the extreme southwest of the cattle country.

It had a good deal of silver on it, and the tapideros were almost Mexican in their elaborateness.