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Page 50 happened if he had found Mr. Oldaker. Next morning we went down to the E. C. Lee saddle shop in Pierre and looked at saddles. About every time I went to Pierre I would go in the saddle
shop and watch them work. The
workshop was in the rear of the store. Saddle trees were ordered in different shapes and sizes from the factory and then covered by the saddle maker. Leather was soaked, then cut and fitted to the pommel, seat and back. Saddle horns were sometimes made of nickel or silver but most of them were iron. These iron ones were covered with leather. Then the skirts, fenders and stirrup straps were attached and it looked like a saddle. Lee saddles were world famous during this era. This was because he made the Cooper Contest Saddles. The original contest saddle was made to order for Kenneth Cooper who lived west of Ft. Pierre and |