a nice story of Sam Dale (S.D.)Myres

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interesting and nice editorial about S.D. Myres:
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Texas Legend S. D. Myres
October 10, 2021Editorials, Saddles/Tack
Tio Sam the Saddle Man
by Gene Fowler

Pancho Villa was a man of many horses. Many horses and many saddles…. So many saddles that it seems like the story of every saddlemaker who was active back in Villa's day includes the claim that they made a custom saddle for the notorious Mexican revolutionary. If you read enough about the West, you'll often get the impression that everyone this side of the Mississippi rode with Buffalo Bill, roped with Will Rogers and played poker with Pancho. Or made him a saddle.

But Samuel Dale Myres, who moved his saddlery from Sweetwater, Texas, to El Paso in 1920, he was the real deal.


This Sweetwater street scene shows S. D. Myres Saddlery in its original building before the fire of 1919.
Not only was the Centaur of the North said to have been a customer and an amigo—or at least an acquaintance—of the saddlemaker, Myres also made saddles for and swapped stories with the likes of Tom Mix, Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill, William S. Hart, Gene Autry, Hoot Gibson, Montie Montana, at least two presidents of Mexico, plus generations of cowboys and ranchers, and yep, Will Rogers....

here the link to the wesite

Texas Legend S. D. Myres – Illume Connect

 

[Papa Lee]

Nice article.

 

[rednichols]

Nice piece because it draws on more than the Sandra Myers bio of Sam Myres. Sandra was married to his great nephew, on the very day Sam died.

The piece does repeat some of Sandra's errors; namely the myth that Eva Myres had TB. Instead she was a heroin addict. She and her habit were something Sam could suddenly afford: the fire of 1919 was heavily insured and he suddenly had heaps of money to fund both his affair with her, and her expensive drug habit. He was 48 and she was about 30 (depending on which date of birth she was giving at the moment; she used many).

 

[dobegrant]

Interesting article,thanks for sharing