Those Booth Horses Again -

[Wild Bill]

I essentially agree with everything that Jerry Madonna has said, particularly post 85 above. I especially like his reference to Magical Saddlebag Theorists along the way.

I am not sure but that Bill Santo has contradicted the material he printed in post 58 above about horse injuries in post 87 above. They are all there and now he denies that?

I cannot find anyplace where Thos Jones said that Mudd confessed he lied to him about Booth falling with his horse. But Mudd lied like a rug according to Ed Steers, His Name Is Still Mudd.

As a matter of fact everyone lied about everything and, to assert what I once said, we really will never know the exact truth. History is that way and that's why we study historiography--i.e., the historians' interpretations, or the historians' lies about history's lies, if you prefer.

Finally, we have a lengthy thread somewhere on his forum with 170+ posts in which we exhausted my assertion that Booth stopped at Mary Surratt's townhouse, both pro and con. So I sympathize with Laurie and Betty rolling their eyes over all this.

But in my chapter notes I refer to make Kauffman making the point that no one knows where Booth went between Ford's and the Navy Yard Bridge (Blue and Gray, [vol. 7, June 1990], 12; and Susan Mahoney Jackson was faking being asleep when the 3 men came in, whom I theorize were Mitchell Smooth, Booth and Herold, in the John H. Surratt trial testimony in 1867.

If you don't like this, that is ok by me. But that is my story and I am sticking with it. BTW I spent 30 years shoeing horses and mules and farriers are noted purveyors of BS as they work. Goes with the profession.