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[RC] Cowboy term for "bucking rolls" - Dawn Simas
My dad is 85 and a true buckaroo style cowboy. Working range cattle in the southwest in the late 30's-50's. I always rode trails english and australian since I have only ridden endurance as a discipline. Recently I bought a Wade style tree western saddle with bucking rolls. I was so proud to show my dad. This was his comment:
"Honey, there's nothing sweeter and more secure than a nice slick-fork saddle with a pair of falsies."
Falsies?! I said they were called Bucking Rolls. He said no. When he was young and breaking mustangs that he would trap to trade for supplies, they would tie their bedroll to the saddle, that was a Bucking Roll. Then later, they started putting a set of leather knobs and screwing them into the tree, and those were called Falsies. For obvious reasons. ;-)
Dawn
P.S. Matter of fact, he met my mother on Tevis. He was called upon when living locally at Randy Steffen's ranch in Auburn to come help get Kaput off the cliff where he had fallen off at (what is now known as) "Kaput Springs". My Grandpa was friends with Wendell Robie and my Mom met my dad that day. Getting a military helicopter to get Kaput out alive was an expensive undertaking for Wendell (the owner only paid $50 for the horse and wouldn't pay, but Sports Illustrated was covering the ride, and they didn't want bad publicity). Marion Robie-Arnold told me that "at least one good thing came of that horse falling off the cliff, if it wasn't for him, *you* wouldn't be here!" :)
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