| Summary: | Den Doorway Saddle. [Forrest:] This shows my saddle that I bought from Babbitt Bros. at Flagstaff, AZ, in June 1907 when I returned to Flagstaff and again rode for Babbitts CO Bar outfit. The rope on the saddle is a sea grass. I never liked the rawhide riatus and practically all of the cowboys in northern AZ in those days used sea grass ropes. Father bought the 30-40 Winchester rifle in 1906 when I was planning to go to Alaska with Gene Pierpoint, a cowboy I had known in Montana, to hunt Kodiak brown bears. Mother had a horror of Alaska because of two men she had known who died of pneumonia in the Gold Rush of 1898 and she asked me not to go. Alaska was the only place she ever asked me to not go to and I thought she had that much consideration coming to her. I gave it up and went to Mexico instead, which with its yellow fever typhus and small pox, not to mention bandits, was far worse than Alaska. I got along with nothing worse than diarrhea, which I cured with a pint of black berry brandy.
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