S. D. Myres Saddle Company Catalog: Riders Supplies (1947)

This black-and-white facsimile reproduces the April 1947 Riders Supplies catalog of the S.D. Myres Saddle Company of El Paso, Texas. Founded by Samuel Dale "Tio Sam" Myres in Sweetwater, Texas in 1898 and relocated to El Paso in 1920, the company had built an international reputation for superior craftsmanship over nearly half a century, supplying saddles to working cowboys, the Texas Rangers, and Hollywood stars including Gene Autry, John Wayne, Tom Mix, and Jack Hoxie. By 1947, with the wartime emphasis on military and law enforcement leather behind it, the firm had returned to its founding focus on Western riding equipment — and Myres himself had begun riding as Grand Marshal of the El Paso Sun Carnival Parade that same year, appearing on horseback as a vision straight from the Old Wild West. This catalog captures the postwar resurgence of the firm just three years before its final move to Alameda Street, where the shop would become known as "Cowboy Headquarters of the Southwest."

Summary of Contents

The catalog presents an individual photographed entry for each saddle, with catalog number, price, and detailed description covering tree, rigging, skirt pattern, swell, cantle height, horn style, stirrups, and tooling options. Saddles range from working stock and ranch saddles to ornate parade and show saddles in the firm's signature hand-tooled "art leather" tradition, featuring the Myres oak-leaf design and Western imagery patterned after the work of Charles Russell. The catalog also covers a full line of riders' accessories including bridles, headstalls, breast collars, cinches, latigos, saddlebags, chaps, spurs, and bits.

An essential reference for collectors of vintage Myres-marked saddles and Western tack, historians of twentieth-century Texas saddlery and the postwar cowboy West, leatherworkers studying mid-century hand-tooling traditions, and researchers of the rodeo and Western film industries the firm helped outfit.

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