University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Photograph of a man sitting on a horse, a cowboy's mount, in a yard in front of a stone house at Almos Ranch, Texas, [United States] in [1907].

Photograph of a man, a cowboy, sitting on a horse in a yard in front of a house on the Almos Ranch, Texas, [United States] in 1907.

Photograph of an articulated skeleton of a prehistoric horse from the Lower Pleistocene in Texas from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA in the early/mid 20th century.

Photograph of a cowboy riding a bucking Texas broncho [bronco horse] in a fenced-in paddock in the early 20th century.

Photograph of three Texas Remount horses in a pen in the early 20th century. The United States Remount Service was mormed under the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army in 1908 in order to breed horses by providing government-owned stallions to privately-owned mares to supply the military at any given time.