Captain Samuel J. Richardson, a jaguar of the plains
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Captain Samuel J. Richardson, commander of Company F, 2nd Texas Cavalry (2nd Mounted Rifles). Captain Richardson was evidently a man of means, appearing in this image superbly armed with a Merrill carbine (2nd Model), an Arkansas Toothpick, and a brace of good Colt revolvers. The good Captain is decked out in chaps made from the hide of Panthera onca, the largest cat in the western hemisphere, described as a leopard on steroids: the Jaguar.