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Written on back in ink: "Thoroughbred horse, "Puente." His mother died when he was one week old. Raised on a bottle (milk) but nearly starved to death. He was broken Spanish style by an old fellow named Jose Navarro, a real old Los Angeles paisano, but broken only to walk and "sobre paso." The first time I rode him he dumped my new suit in the mud. I finally made a fine saddle horse out of him. During "La Fiesta," in Los Angeles, while President McKinley was viewing the parade, I made him salute the president who with Mrs. McKinley was viewing the parade from the Grand Stand at the City Hall by rearing up on his hind legs and then kneeling down. The saddle was my Grandfather's - General Albert Sidney Johnston. May 1st 1925"
Written in pen on back: "L.A. - Fiesta - 1901. McKinley, William."