RE:Trivia time

by Catoosa, Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 09:44 (4673 days ago) @ Drago

Well, Jerry B nailed it, but it seems we were BOTH wrong. Unless you look real close, it appears that the cowboy on the ground has his right foot in the left stirrup. That's what I thought. Upon closer inspection (thanks to anachronism's comment causing me to count horse legs), it appears that what looks like a fifth leg is actually the stirrup dangling under the horse's belly. The man has his spur caught in the lariat tied on the left side of his saddle.

It looks now as if he actually got into the saddle before he was hit, and fell off to the left, catching his spur as his boot came over.

Russell would never have made a mistake like that in one of his paintings. I first thought he must have done it on purpose, but now it appears that it was just his incredible eye for detail.