Confessions of a horseshoer
by Ron Tatum
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- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2012
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- Table of Contents:
- 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 of the 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 bad job?
- 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 named Gus
- Even more dog stories
- Other kinds of creatures
- The donkey and the spearcarrier
- Chickens
- Rabbits
- People and three cats
- The pig who thought he could
- More pig stories
- Youth rodeo
- The youngest cowboy
- Graduation
- Dad
- The eight-week syndrome.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- Physical Description:
- xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Call Numbers:
- SF907 .T38 2012
- ISBNs:
- 9781574414530 (cloth, alk. paper)
1574414534 (cloth, alk. paper)
9781574414615 (ebook)
1574414615 (ebook) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2012002038
- OCLC Numbers:
- 768792453