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1 online resource (267 pages). |
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text file |
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Western Life
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Western Life.
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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; More Injuries and Violence; (Why Horseshoers Are Always Late); Ponies; Welsh Ponies; Insensitivity?; Flies. |
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The Marin County RodeoThe 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; 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. |
Summary |
Confessions of a Horseshoer offers a close and personal look at the mind-set of a professional horseshoer (farrier) who also happens to be a college professor. The book, an ironic and playful view of the many unusual animals (and people) Ron Tatum has encountered over thirty-seven years, is nicely balanced between straightforward presentation, self-effacing humor, and lightly seasoned wisdom. It captures the day-to-day life of a somewhat cantankerous old guy, who has attitude and strong opinions. Tatum provides a detailed description of the horseshoeing process, its history, and why horses nee. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Tatum, Ron, 1933-
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College teachers -- Oregon -- Biography.
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College teachers. |
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Oregon. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Fathers and sons.
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Fathers and sons. |
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Horseshoeing -- California.
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Horseshoeing. |
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California. |
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Horseshoeing -- Oregon.
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Horseshoers -- Oregon -- Biography.
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Horseshoers. |
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Horseshoers -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Multi-User. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Tatum, Ron, 1933- Confessions of a horseshoer. 1st ed. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2012 9781574414530 (DLC) 2012002038 (OCoLC)768792453 |
ISBN |
9781574414615 (electronic book) |
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1574414615 (electronic book) |
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128392434X (e-book) |
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9781283924344 (e-book) |
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1574414534 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781574414530 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781574414530 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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