Indeed he either protects his wrists with leather wristlets, or wears long gauntlet gloves.

Mounted on his favourite horse, his was a gay cavalier figure, and at the "Baillie" he felt himself to be irresistible to the shy and often very pretty Mexican senoritas.

There you have a pretty faithful picture of the cowboy of twenty-five years ago.
It remains to say something of the "shooting irons." In the days of which I write there was no restriction to the bearing of arms.

Every man carried a six-shooter.

We, and most of our outfit, habitually carried a carbine or rifle as well as the smaller weapon.