assistance of a log, or stone, or a friendly 

 hand for a lift ? Western riding is not 

 Central Park riding, nor is it Rotten 

 Row riding. The cowboy's, or military, 

 seat is much simpler and easier for both 

 man and beast than the Park seat 

 though, of course, less stylish. That is 

 the glory of it; you can go galloping 

 over the prairie and uplands with never a 

 thought that the trot is more proper, and 

 your course, untrammelled by fenced-in 

 roads, is straight to the setting sun or 

 to yonder butte. And if you want a 

 spice of danger, it is there, sometimes 

 more than you want, in the presence 01 

 badger and gopher holes, to step into 

 which while at high speed may mean 

 a broken leg for your horse, perhaps a 

 broken neck for yourself. But to return 

 to the independence of riding astride : 

 One day I was following a game trail 



