Well assembled bedroll helps you when traveling light

Back in the days of the Old West, a cowboy's bedroll was much different than we imagine as overnight travelers, hikers, or campers today. Today's bedroll generally means a hastily thrown together and rolled up sleeping bag, perhaps with a pillow and additional blankets tossed in, maybe even including a good change of underwear and one day's outerwear. We strap all this together and shove it into the trunk of the car, or if we're real outdoors adventurers, onto a bicycle, motorcycle, or horse.

As you may have read here in a past article, the cowboy's bedroll was much more like a 19th Century equivalent to a really well-designed piece of carry-on or over-night luggage. He used it to haul those special, personal valuables that were near and dear to him in addition to sleeping gear.

If you're looking for a good bedroll or the materials you want to assemble it as you "roll your own" bedroll, you'll find lots of useful straps, sleeping bags, and related products available at eBay!

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Using our sophisticated search software, we've put together a wide selection of links to real-time eBay auctions and "Buy It Now" products to help you assemble a really good bedroll -- whether that's a cowboy bedroll or a cyclist's bedroll. And some of the links take you to a good yarn or two about life in the Old West when some very creative cowboys shaping cowboy bedrolls were in fine style. As the world's largest constantly-changing auction, eBay offers a wide selection of everything you need to travel in style and travel as light as you wish.

I invite you to bookmark this page and come back often, as eBay's selections are constantly changing and updated regularly right here.

About Gary Speer

Gary Speer, aka "Old Hoppy," has been hanging around the Old West since way back when "Hoppy" meant "Hoppalong Cassady," the Clarence E. Mulford Western novel character transformed into a bona fide movie (and later TV) hero portrayed by William Boyd. Gary's "Old Hoppy" nickname came from fun loving friends and family members because of his love for the Old West -- and for all of the American Story in history.