Saddle tramp (person)
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A saddle tramp is a person who wanders from place to place on horseback. One of the most famous saddle tramps was Mesannie Wilkins; a 63-year-old farmer who made national headlines by traveling over 5,000 miles across the United States from Maine to California by horseback.
Etymology and mainstream usage[edit]
The earliest known use of the term saddle tramp is from the 1920s. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, evidence for the usage can be found in the 1922 Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana).[1]
The Saddle Tramps, an all-male booster organization supports men's athletics at Texas Tech University, were formed by Tech student Arch Lamb in 1936. The name Saddle Tramp came from the stories of traveling men who would come to a farm for a brief time, fix up some things and move on.[2]
In popular culture[edit]
- Saddle Tramp (film) is a 1950 American Western film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Joel McCrea and Wanda Hendrix
- Saddle Tramp is a 1976 song by Charlie Daniels.
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