Saddleries of Montana: Montana's Makers from Territorial Times to 1940

A one-of-a-kind resource that covers the saddleries of Montana from approximately the 1860s through 1940, through over 500 photographs.

Montana saddleries—or “horse hardware stores”—designed, manufactured, and sold a variety of practical and artistic equipment for cowboys, ranchers, farmers, miners, loggers, and every settler that ventured west of the Mississippi River. Saddleries' hard-working—and today, collector-quality—products ranged from saddles and chaps to cuffs and boots, from ha...