side-saddles

My friend of the evening before showed me his “rig,” three velvet-covered side-saddles almost without horns.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

A curious feature of the fight was the fact that Boer women must have been engaged on the hill, as some of their side-saddles were captured among the guns, ammunition, blankets, &c., seized by the West Yorks when the Boers were routed from the hill-top.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

Out of a dirty little Spanish shop two men's saddles of antiquated English make, with rolls, were unearthed, and hired in preference to some prehistoric side-saddles, with moth-eaten doe-skin seats and horned third pommels.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

One end of the long porch of the store-house, as it runs with the road, is but a step from the ground, and the mountain falls away until the floor is conveniently up to the height of a wagon's bed; then the road dips again until the porch is on a level with the saddle-stirrups and the women dismount with ease from their high-backed, tasseled side-saddles as they come in sunbonnets and ginghams.

Sergeant York And His People

Behind him rode R. and myself, shaking down by degrees into our saddles, glad not to have before us eight or ten hours 'jog across rough country on provincial side-saddles, which, apart from the strained position, are inconvenient for slipping off and on again.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Three English side-saddles had been brought out in the train for the ladies, while the men of the party took the horse-gear provided by the owner of the animals, instruments of torture known as Turkish saddles.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

Now, to make our indiscretion complete, we have only to peep into the _salon des amazones_, a room draped in green velvet and decorated with whips, stirrups, and side-saddles.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

All de ladies rode horseback, and dey rode side-saddles.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

They brought out gilded side-saddles and goodly trappings for the women.

The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

The incident of the large number of side-saddles found in the British camp at Dundee had given Hansie food for much thought, and had caused her to plan her own future line of action long before the British officers entered Pretoria.

The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Johanna Brandt 1920