Pumphry and Booth's Spurs

[Jim Garrett]

Pumphrey is indeed at Congressional. I believe the residence listed on C St in his obituary is the address or next to the livery business. This was located directly behind the National Hotel. As for the spurs, world re-known spur expert Sanford Potts of Columbia Tennessee states that the spur at Ford's is a 1858 cavalry spur. Potts also examined the spur on display at the U S Naval Academy museum and according to Potts, it is an English spur manufactured in the 1880's. Mr. Ferrell's earlier posting makes sense. You may not need spurs at all on a high-spirited horse and may well make the horse more difficult to manage.