1900 D. E. WALKER Visalia Stock Saddle Chaps CATALOG

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This is a (5 1/2" x 8") reprint of the 1900 D. E. Walker Catalog... Later it became the Visalia Stock Saddle Company. This catalog has 48 pages plus the inside of the front and back covers. Nice history of the early California saddle maker. It shows many western stock saddles , and side saddles. T are chaps and California style bits, spurs, braided rawhide , hackamore , bridles and headstalls. Saddlebags and cantinas, quirts, tapaderos and stirrups. Setting up shop about 1868, David E. Walker, an experienced businessman and promoter who began an extensive advertising campaign to expand the his saddle market. Walker was extremely successful in building up the company's trade, especially through his catalogs which brought in a large mail-order business. His D. E. Walker trademark was stamped on every saddle that left the shop, making his name famous wver cattlemen and riders gatd together. Making the Visalia stock saddle one of the most desirably in the American West, as well as in British Columbia, the Hawaiian Islands, Argentina, Chile, and Australia. Walker retired in 1887 and sold the company to his nephew, Edwin Weeks, who began transferring the business to San Francisco. The Visalia shop was closed in the 1890s, and the firm then moved its headquarters to 221 California Street in San Francisco. Still known as the Visalia Saddle read more

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