Back 100 years ago, if a woman desired to go horseback riding she needed a special seat called a woman’s side saddle.
This week’s history lesson is a woman’s side saddle seat that belonged to Northfielder Daisie Moses, known to many as “Dacie.” She rode her horses with this seat as a young girl growing up in Northfield.
Now this early 1900s side saddle seat makes a home at Northfield Historical Society. Donated in May of 1997 by Karna Cronholm Brewer, who sat in the seat during Jesse James parades in the 1950s, she was later given the seat as a graduation gift in 1955 by Dacie. The side saddle seat is designed to fit a woman’s more delicate, small feet.