packsaddle

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Wrapped like a package, the bundle is tied with manty rope and lashed to each side of a Decker-style packsaddle.

From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2017

In their knowledge of Indian character, of horse and packsaddle lore, of the forest and its trails in every season, these men of the Cowpens were the kings of the old frontier.

From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Hulbert, Archer Butler

However, he was in too much of a hurry to be afraid of it; he ran off to the little grey horse and frenziedly but skilfully began to bind the traps upon the packsaddle.

From Active Service by Crane, Stephen

I figure it that way; nevertheless, copper-riveted cinches sometimes aren't properly cinched and Fortune backs out of the packsaddle.

From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

The more civilised make up of canvass or "gunny bags" stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal's back.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir