[good1]

The horse did not "evolve" 5 million years ago. It was created by God, hoofs and all, 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

The subject of the origin of the horse is not crucial to the story, but since the writer brought it up . . .

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Horseshoeing is very very hard work. I graduated from Oklahoma Farrier’s College back in 1973 and shod horses in NM, Colo, OK and Ark for a few years. I shod my last one in 1977.

The work is backbreaking and a killer in Ark-Ok summer heat!

I still do some blacksmithing for odds and ends and verious steel fabrication.
Still have my tools, anvil (Peter Wright) and a home made forge with which I burn OKla coal!

On a cool day forge work is fun!