Chuckwagon Cook / Cowboy

The Spanish "Vaquero" started the cowboy culture in the west, influencing the equipment, clothes, and terms.


Cowboy Hat	Saddle Bags

This spur is of iron, which is rusted. There is decorative etching on outside of frame from fastener to curved end that holds spur. Leather strap fastens the frame at side of boot.

Branding Iron for
branding cattle.

Bullwhip. Wooden handle, 7 3/4" long, attached with rawhide to braided-leather whip. Whip is thickest near handle and gets thinner down the length. Ends in 5 strips of leather not braided.
Bullwhip where made by Ed Scott in early 1900's and used on Connell Ranch.

Leather Chaps to be worn outside pants to protect pants and wearer.

This particulare bedroll is a Crazy quilt pattern, made from old clothes, called a "soogan". Lined with feed sack, printing on the lining is Bewley's Anchor Brand. Tied with yarn, not quilted. In the old days, it was a common practice to use feed sacks as quilt linings as well as clothing.