Bill Glidden, a.k.a. "Leatherman," Proprietor of Double Branch Saddlery, became interested in the cowboy genre in 1966 at Universal Studios in California when he worked on the TV show The Virginian.  He has worked as actor, stunt rider coordinator and consultant for numerous films since those early days of the great westerns.   He got his start building period saddles 13 years ago when he began renting horses and providing period military saddles to the officers who command the armies at major Civil War reenactments.