The rowels were huge but blunt-pointed, and had little metal bells attached.
His boots cost him near a month's pay, always made to careful order, with enormously high and narrow heels, as high as any fashionable woman's; his feet were generally extremely small, because of his having lived in the saddle from early boyhood up.

He wore a heavy woollen shirt, with a gorgeous and costly silk handkerchief tied loosely round his neck.

His head-covering was a very large grey felt hat, a "genuine Stetson," which cost him from five to twenty dollars, never less.

To keep the big hat in place a thong or cord is tied around and below the back of the head instead of under the chin, experience having proved it to be much more effective in that position.

His six-shooter had plates of silver on the handle, and his scabbard was covered with silver buttons.