Cargo, I pretty sure he is wearing a pair of genuine pale cream cowboy ropeing everyday work gloves, I know I saw him wearing them, I got some the same at that time from a hardware store in Flagstaff Arizona

I think they are made of Elk hide just about the the toughest leather you can get and seems that you cannot wear them out.

I still have mine as good as new after using them from the early sixties racing and every day for twenty years riding horses.