leather-guarded

Updated: May 22, 2025

Lithe, sinewy and bronzed by hard riding and hot suns, he sat in his Cheyenne saddle like a centaur, all his weight on the heavy, leather-guarded stirrups, his body rising in one magnificent straight line. A bleached moustache hid the thin lips, and a gray sombrero threw a heavy shadow across his eyes.

Clarence Edward Mulford - Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up