The American Cavalry Spurs

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• Date: Jul 18,2009

by Dan Anderson The use of boot or heel spurs in a cavalry is a practice that historically was practiced in various different countries. Cavalry spurs were determined as a show of military rank and overall experience in the cavalry and spurs were given to those cavalrymen who had progressed onto being more advanced than just one of the new recruits. There is an old civil war tradition known as the “Spur Ride” where all of the new cavalry and military recruits perform a series of tests and ev