Boots and Saddles (bugle call)

[2] Its name drives from the French phrase boute-selle, "put on saddle".

[5] The tune was recorded in 1919 for the Victor Talking Machine Company's "Bugle Calls of the U.S. Army: Part 1".

[7] "Boots and Saddles" is blown several times in Mark Twain's 1907 novel A Horse's Tale.

[8] Elizabeth Bacon Custer's 1885 biography of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer, was titled Boots and Saddles: Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer.

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