US Patent No. 582535 Bridle Bit by G W Le Compte May 11 1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap By 1897 the frontier was

By 1897 the frontier was already declared closed

when the West was still wide enough to run and nearly done being wild

rendered with the parlor decorum of a White House trying to look respectable again

1890s — a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who

the triple epithet doing the work of myth before the grave at the Hermitage had even settled

US Patent No. 582535 Bridle Bit by G W Le Compte May 11 1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap By 1897 the frontier wasUs Patent No. 582535 Bridle Bit by G W Le Compte May 11 1897 Le Compte's inventor's diagram details the mouthpiece and shanks with the quiet precision of a horseman who knew exactly how a rein's pressure travels through steel, filed in an era when the carriage horse and the saddle bred still ruled American roads. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings,