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Carberry’s Backward Shoe Method Draws Laughs
In Lag Cruxes rancher Jon Carberry recalls shoeing his gentle sorrel horse Sam while the animal lay on his back in the corral. The tale appears amid a May 1901 Capitan Progress mention of Judge Roy Bean and a Las Cruces cartoonist scene.
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Jon
Ey) Carberry
Lag Cruces
Carberry
Sam
the Capitan Progress
of Bean
Roy Bean
Law
Peco
Massachusetts
Pecos
Langtry
Tex
Far East
Judge Bean
Bean
Henry Shipman, Jr
Las Cruces
Jon Carberry