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Hi all. I was much educated by an old guy farmer in northwest
Arkansas who started with mules and ended with four wheel drive
tractors. Yes, mule shoes are different from horse shoes are
different from ox shoes, etc., but an old time farmer can tell you
forensics on a shoe that would beat Quincy (I'm old) or CSI
wherever. Plus fashions, plus rocky soils versus alluvial clay
versus gravel roads versus paved roads. A Boy Scout with our boys
(now all in their 20s) has a father who's a blacksmith and who claims
there are more horses in Arkansas today then 150 years ago (not as
many mules but they are back in fashion) and most shoes have to be
customized. Wait, I'm starting to sound like Ron May. Yipes! Bye
for now. P.S. Measure in all directions and record calkins and toes
and wear patterns et al. Then ask a blacksmith. He won't know the
four-legged's name but he'll tell you everything else.
At 02:08 PM 8/3/2007, you wrote:
>Here is a book I reviewed for Historical Archaeology
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>Pfeiffer, Michael A.
> 1996 Review of: The Complete Horseshoeing Guide (second
> edition), by Robert
> F. Wiseman. University of Oklahoma Press. Historical Archaeology
> 30(3):97-98.
>
>I remembered that I really enjoyed the book but don't have it here at
>the ofice or HA. They only have reviews on the SHA website from 2000
>onward.
>
>Back to the Salt Mines!
>
>:-)
>
...
Leslie C. "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy, Ph.D.
Arkansas Archeological Survey
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Petit Jean Mountain
1 Rockefeller Drive
Morrilton, AR 72110
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