On Friday, February 28, 2003 at 10:52:06 AM UTC-8, ro...@webtv.net wrote:   
   > Recently on the History Ch. program "Mail Call", the host was showing   
   > equipment used by the cavalry around the time of the LBH fight.  He   
   > showed each article, and said it's weight. Total equipment, including   
   > some feed for the horse totalled 60 lbs.  He stated that a cavalry horse   
   > was not to cary a combined weight of rider and equipment could not   
   > exceed 200 lbs.   
   > The rider had to weigh no more than 140 lbs.   
   >    
   >  In none of the books I have read or ever heard it mentioned.  Have any   
   > of you ever heard this?     
   >  Boy, it that was so, John Wayne, Ward Bond, Victor McLaughlin and that   
   > entire John Ford crew would have out of luck.    
   >    
   > Charlie   
   Cavalry soldiers were small. My dad was 5'6" & 140 pounds. Their gear weighed   
   50 to 60 pounds. That's a lot for a horse to carry all day. History books fail   
   to mention that at the end of the day the soldiers had to care for their horse   
   first. That meant    
   cleaning the "bean" out too. There was not a lot of glamour in it according to   
   my dad.    
       
      
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