Few can deny the smell and touch of fresh handcrafted leather. Those special qualities pervade the senses at Miguel Aguilar’s Saddle Barn, a new small workshop nestled in the rear section of Old ...

Part of an unfinished saddle by leather artist Jerry Shaw in his work space in McKinney, Texas on August 15, 2012. Shaw does does everything from guitar straps to chairs, but his main focus is horse ...

Stübben has been making saddles for more than a century. It takes 150 steps to make one saddle -- from tanning to coloring the leather to making the brass fittings. Stübben works together with a firm ...

The horse may have been man's best friend during the early history of the United States. Horses were used for transportation, farm work, hunting, military and many other purposes. And they were ...