The rest of the saddle bag may not have faired well, but its flap has survived with the saddler's mark still visible. The flap was collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. As is noted in the center of the impressed star, the saddler was W. Musgrave of Montrose, Colorado. The Plowboy site was home to the Kansa, the Potawatomi, and Euro-Americans. At various times, the site contained a farm, a trading post, and a post office with nearby military trails, Mormon routes, a railroad and the California-Oregon trail.
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Saddle Bag Flap from the Plowboy Site, 14SH372 - 1