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forgemonkey
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Looking for arrow heads and found the below. The 'shoe' was wedged under a good size boulder and has quite a twist to it.
I bent down to pick it up and noticed a symmetrical shape in the gravel.
Look close and you can see the nose of a cartridge in the gravel. I brushed the rocks aside and pulled out an unfired 44 Colt W.R.A CO. It's just to the right of center in the shoe and has a light gray color. First pic points to nose of bullet ,,,,
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That's a pretty cool find. How old do you think that shoe is?
Well, it's a 'keg shoe" so it would very difficult to date. The industrial revolution started producing horse shoes in mass but my 'swag' theory would be sometime within the last 100 years ,,,,, the owner of the ranch said he had never been in the narrow box canyon where I found it.
Intriguing, I like it
Neat find
I Agee the stories behind the find would be interesting
looks like some of the nails are still in it ?
Yes, they are ,,,,
It didn't last long on the horse, very little wear showing. Apparently shod poorly.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Probably the horse broke his leg, and the owner shot him.
Is that close to Donner pass I will guess what happened to the rest of it
The real story is, it belonged on a horse that was ridden by either Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid that was headed to South America after a failed robbery attempt with a possee hot on their trail which chased them high into the mountains and forcing them to high jump into a river to escape. After that scary experience they decided it would be better to learned to ride bicycles and give up undependable horseback riding forever. That's the truth so help me 😊
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Very nice bit of reasoning, laddie.....
My late GGG Uncle had this old map. At the end of a long maze of clues there was a lone horse shoe with a bullet that marked the spot where the treasure was buried. 😲
That's that shoe that belonged to the horse that threw Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen off in "Back To The Future 3".
A unfired 44 cal colt bullet with the horse shoe.
Might be interesting to go back to that area with a metal detector.
You say:
the owner of the ranch said he had never been in the narrow box canyon where I found it.
Might find the riders bones and his guns. (colts)
I Have to ask did you take it home
Make some kind of display or shadow box with the photo and shoe
Or not that interesting to mess with just another old horse shoe ?
Neat find.
Nope ,,,,,, gave it to the rancher, he didn’t want the cartridge so I bought it home.
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of the horse, the rider was lost. For want of the rider, the battle was lost.
It would probably say "Well Wilber"😮
Well, if it had 7 nail holes, we know where it came from.....
The 'shoe' was wedged under a good size boulder and has quite a twist to it.
any thoughts to how it got wedged upside down , because if I understand how the shoe goes on a horse, we are looking at the side that should be on the ground , correct ???
Have no idea unless the front shoe pulled off and a rear hoof stepped on it pushing it under the rock ,,,,,,
I didn't think about that , how ever it happened , to say the least, it probably wasn't good for the horse or rider
I think that both the bullet and the horseshoe fell out of the back of the farriers truck or maybe saddlebag. It was a front shoe and was re-usable. It was probably twisted while being pried off of the horse’s hoof. Don’t ask me how I know.
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Did you look to see if the horse & rider were under the boulder?
The story behind the "found" item is most important.
Horseshoe was there first. Boulder fell/ rolled onto it later, twisting and flipping shoe over.
Horse was a gelded Appaloosa about 15 hands high with a male rider of about 185 pounds heading at a speed of about 14 mph towards the southwest.
signed......Lord Baltimore, that fella who was tracking Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 😁