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Silver Dollar Jim

rosser Martin often said the most expensive saddle he ever made, a $10,000 blue, silver-mounted beauty, went to Houston millionaire James West, aka Silver Dollar Jim. And it’s a pretty safe bet that of all of Prosser’s thousands of customers, Silver Dollar was the most “Texas” of ‘em

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