Billiards Pioneer Style

One sport popular on the frontier was "horseback billards". It was considered courageous to ride your horse into the nearest saloon. Once inside, you could stay on your horse for a game of billards, shooting from a top your horse. :) That is provided you got to stay once you rode your horse into the saloon - it was commonplace to "escort such ill-mannered visitors outside at the point of a gun!