Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
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
Photo Gallery
(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, 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
Two People and Three Cats
The Pig Who Thought He Could
More Pig Stories
Youth Rodeo
The Youngest Cowboy
Graduation
Dad
The Eight-Week Syndrome