There were alot of cattle in those days. LOL. Lotta shoemakers too, in the days before it was mechanized. My godfather was a shoemaker, and my father trained under him and ran his shop at one point. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcia Payne" <etexgal@webtv.net> To: <MAWORCES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:00 PM Subject: [MAWORCES] Shoe makers > While I've been working on this Civil War project, I noticed many > shoemakers. Where in the world did they get so much leather? That's alot > of cow hides 'eh? > > Marcia > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAWORCES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message