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1st Prize Carload Hereford Bulls, Colorado, 1946

Description: Photograph of twelve Hereford bulls, all with large horns, lined side by side in a large corral. In the background are several pens and behind that is a tall brush-covered hill. This photo was taken at the headquarters of Switzer and Field Hereford Ranch in Gunnison County, Colorado.
Date: December 1945
Creator: Smith, Guy E.
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

Breaking in a Horse

Description: Photograph of one man riding a light-colored horse and two other cowboys watching. One cowboy is standing and waving a cloth, the other is sitting on top of a fence. In the background are several buildings and corrals.
Date: unknown
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

Bridle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle. This design "consists in a novel manner of constructing driving-bridles, whereby a leverage upon the bit and curb proportionate to the needs of any particular occasion may be drawn up so that it will be impossible to hold the bit out of control of the driver" (lines 7-14).
Date: August 19, 1884
Creator: Roeber, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle

Description: Patent for a bridle that will improve how the horse is guided and also prevent horse from running away. The device also will help prevent the horse from displacing the bridle.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Hentschel, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle and Bit.

Description: Patent for improvements to Bridles and Bits, specifically what are known as stranglers, used to easily gain control over an animal by exerting pressure on its nose, operated by a slight pull on the auxiliary reins. This patent also provides for a device which activates the strangler when the driver releases it and the animal steps on it.
Date: April 7, 1914
Creator: Hentschel, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle attachment. This design "consists of a contrivance of nose-clamping strap having end rings through which pass the ends of a chin-strap connected by reign-straps passing through rings of a head-strap of the attachment . . . the invention comprising also a connection of the martingale-straps with the rings of the nose-clamping straps . . . to powerfully check up the horse when required, and also to prevent rearing and plunging" (lines 9-20).
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Massey, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle-Bit.

Description: Patent for new and improved bridle-bits, including illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1900
Creator: Lee, Joseph Loverel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle-Bit.

Description: Patent for a bridle bit that holds and manages vicious horses and that can be adjusted to also fit a calf or colt.
Date: December 19, 1911
Creator: Smith, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle Bit.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle-bit. This design consists "[i]n a bridle-bit, the combination, with the bit-bar, provided with the loops of the angle-levers mounted on the said bar and having their corresponding arms respectively connected by the curb-chain and provided with rein loops or rings and the studs or pins on the levers engaging the loops" (lines 70-76).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Bowles, Zachary Taylor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle Bit.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle bit. This design "consist[s] of curb-plates provided with the mouth-bar and having the upper ends provided with slots and the lower ends formed with longitudinal slots, and the cheek-plates loosely fitted to the outer ends of the mouth-bar and having their opposite ends formed with openings for the attachment of the head-stall and reins" (lines 72-79).
Date: March 11, 1890
Creator: Allen, John Hudson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle-Bit

Description: Patent for improvements in bridle bits, particularly bridle bits known as curb bridle bits. One of the objects is to provide means whereby the curb loop or strap is prevented from engaging the lips of the horse when strain is applied to the driving reins.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Bass, James O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design consists "[i]n a harness-buckle, the combination, with the frame, provided with a tongue-bar having two tongues thereon and a tongue-bar having a single tongue thereon, of a clasp-rest and a hinged clasp near opposite ends of the buckle-frame" (lines 77-82).
Date: October 7, 1884
Creator: Daniel, Ellison Armistead
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Champion and Reserve Champion Herefords at the 1955 HFSS

Description: Photograph of the Grand Champion and Reserve Champion Hereford steers at the Houston Fat Stock Show. The cows have banners on their backs and young boy in a cowboy hat stands in-between them. Nine men and one woman stands behind the steers. Three men are wearing suits and ties, five men are wearing cowboy hats, and the woman is wearing earrings and a purse.
Date: 1955
Creator: Shirer, R. W.
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

Champion and Reserve Champion Herefords at the 1955 HFSS

Description: Photograph of two young cowboys holding the harnesses of the Grand and Reserve Champion Herefords at the Houston Fat Stock Show. Both boys are wearing button-up shirts, cowboy boots and cowboy hats and one boy has the number 984 pinned to his shirt. They are both holding banners on the cow's backs, one reads, "Champion, Open Class Hereford Steer, Houston Fat Stock show and Livestock Exposition". In the background is arena seating.
Date: 1955
Creator: Shirer, R. W.
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

Champion Bull, The Best Bet Sale

Description: Photograph of a champion Hereford bull with horns and wearing a harness. Standing behind the bull are two men in suits and ties, both wearing cowboy hats. One man is holding the bull's harness and the other is holding a banner that reads, "Champion Bull, The Best Bet Sale, Wichita Fallls, Texas 1958".
Date: 1958
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum
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