Fun At Revolver Drill

Here's an image of the Military Tournament that was taken at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition that was held in Seattle, June, 1909. This is the revolver drill portion of the event and it appears that some of the horses were not too happy about it. The cavalry detachment pictured was from the 14th US Cavalry.

This picture is from the University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division (Photographic print, B87C). it's interesting to know that some things never change. We are so conditioned to believe that cavalry horses, or horses in general, back in the "old days" never spooked or shied but the evidence is here before us. I suspect that no matter how well trained the horse and/or calvaryman was, there were those days when things just went wrong and the cavalryman would become airborne. Ouch!