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The McClellan saddle was a riding saddle designed by George B. McClellan, a career Army officer in the U.S. Army, after his tour of Europe as the member of a military commission charged with studying the latest developments in engineer and cavalry forces including field equipment. Based on his observations, McClellan proposed a design that was adopted by the Army in 1859. The McClellan saddle was a success and continued in use in various forms until the US Army's last horse cavalry and horse artillery was dismounted in World War II. Today, the McClellan saddle is used by ceremonial mounted units in the US Army. The saddle was used by several other nations, including Rhodesia and Mexico, and to a degree by the British in the Boer War.
Usage examples of "mcclellan saddle".
He pushed both hands down on the pommel of his McClellan saddle to straighten himself up.
The walking was easier on the ass of any man seated in a McClellan saddle.
Don't seem likely the three of us would fit comfortably in a McClellan saddle, and if we could, the old army bay couldn't carry us far enough to matter.
Finally he managed to stay on, and the lightness of the McClellan saddle must have pleased the pinto after the heavy Texas saddles, for when he felt the man securely on his back he began to move with a new gracefulness, and for the first time in his life Bufe Coker understood what a horse could be.
So this time, seeing he needed someplace to pack his possibles in any case, he'd brought along his personal McClellan saddle and army bridle with his roll, saddlebags, and Winchester '73 attached.
But since Longarm didn't carry a throw rope on his McClellan saddle, he had to lean out and grab the running boy by the X of his overall straps.
He was bridled now, under an old, used, but perfectly cared-for McClellan saddle.