1) American comic strip 2) Malibu area canyon 3) Saddletree strap 4) Strap on a saddle 1) Strap 
Soft, flexible strap made of leather, attached to a heavy ring on a saddle tree, used to attach a cinch to a western saddle. Modern latigo usually has holes punched for a cinch buckle. On older saddles the latigo had no holes and the cinch was secured to the saddle with the latigo tied in a latigo hitch or girth hitch, a variation of the cow hitch....
[comic strip] Latigo was a comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Stan Lynde, who also created the Rick O`Shay comic strip. After a dispute over the ownership of Rick O`Shay with the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, Lynde left and went to Field Enterprises to launch Latigo. The daily Latigo daily strip began 25 June 1979. The Sunday strip, i...
• (n.) A strap for tightening a saddle girth.
La'ti·go noun [ Spanish látigo .] A strap for tightening a saddle girth. [ Western U. S. & Spanish Amer.] 
Cinch strap on a Western saddle