• Confessions of a horseshoer
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Author: TatumRon, 1955-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Denton, Tex.
    Published: University of North Texas Press;
    Year of Publication: 2012
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Description: 1 online resource (272 p.).
    Series: Number 8 in the Western life series
    Subject: Fathers and sons -
    Subject: Horseshoeing - Oregon -
    Subject: Horseshoeing - California -
    Subject: Horseshoers - Social life and customs -
    Subject: College teachers - Biography - Oregon -
    Subject: Horseshoers - Biography - Oregon -
    Personal Subject: Tatum - Ron -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781574414615/
    ISBN: 9781574414615electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9781574414530hbk.
    Content Note: Reflections before charging ahead -- The first horse -- Starting out -- What do horses in the wild do? -- Recalcitrant horses -- Other ways to get the job done -- A Wyoming cowboy -- Druids, Celts, and blacksmiths -- Horses and marines -- Going it alone -- The job -- The tools ofthe trade --Forges -- What the well-dressed horseshoer wears -- Weather -- Injuries I have known -- Different kinds of wrecks -- Exercise --Disclaimer -- Another disclaimer -- More injuries and violence (why horseshoers are always late) -- Ponies -- Welsh ponies -- Insensitivity? -- Flies -- The Marin County rodeo -- The newspaper reporter -- The badjob? -- A different kind of bad job -- Crime in a small town -- The bird man -- Culinary aspects -- People and their animals -- Nicky, miscellaneous dumb dogs,and other animals -- Nicky, my regular horseshoeing dog -- Lucy -- German shepherds, ducks, cats, and wild turkeys -- More dogs -- The dog clmed Gus -- Even more dog stories -- Other kinds of creatures -- The donkey and the spearcarrier -- Chickens -- Rabbits -- People and three cats -- The pig whothought he could -- More pig stories-- Youth rodeo -- The youngest cowboy -- Graduation -- Dad -- The eight-week syndrome
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