Great writeup, rodfac. I found it very educational.
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Cavalrymen, excepting officers who provided their own mounts, could not weigh more than 140 lbs during the indian war period because the equipment and tack that they carried was kept to 100 lbs....the total load being 240 lbs
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Most today don't realize that people were typically smaller in stature than they are today. If one ever gets the chance to look in an original stagecoach, one soon has to wonder how more than two people could fit inside.