Throwing more Mudd in the game

[Gene C]

(09-25-2013 12:28 PM)L Verge Wrote:  There is also a reference some place about Booth telling people that he was still tired from his horse ride back to D.C. and had gotten lost and had gone miles off track. That might lend credence to the thought that he found his way finally to T.B. and decided to board the horse and take the more comfortable stagecoach the rest of the way into the city.

And that statement just put another question in my mind (stop groaning!): Ignoring the fact that Booth had a broken leg, how uncomfortable would his backside and thighs be after riding a horse at top speed for thirty miles with only brief stops?

Very, and if he tries to shift his weight off the broken leg to compensate for the pain, his back is going to start hurting too! I don't think the pain in his leg is going to allow him to go running the horse at top speed. And it's not safe to go running in the dark, you trip and fall down. I'm not sure, based also on your earlier comment above, that Booth was as good of a horseman as some of you think. He doesn't seem to have done much distance riding.