Editor’s note: Every Thursday during Black History Month, the Today section will profile a historic figure who shaped the future of the Cape Fear region. In 1859, Alfred Hargrave, a 40-year-old slave, ...

LAWRENCE (AP) >> Nowadays, many people think of a blacksmith as someone who makes horseshoes and nails them onto the animal's hooves. Richard Wright, a blacksmith who has been in the trade for more ...

Wearing a cowboy hat with a patch that reads, “Dead End: Story of My Life,” and a priestlike black robe to protect him from the flames, Pasadena’s last cowboy-blacksmith pounds out the curve on a ...

HARTSVILLE — Three things — a fire, a fashion and a fondness — account for the final change of Raymond A. Whitney's career from horseshoes to automobiles and back to horseshoes. Brought up by his ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- Randy Dack still remembers every detail from Sept. 11, 2001. Dack, the blacksmith at Grand Island's Stuhr Museum, vividly remembers hearing, "they just hit the World Trade Center ...

Lucky are those who land in the horse carriage driven by Jan Michnej. The 60-year-old blacksmith-turned-carriage driver uses the skills he honed years ago to leave his customers with an unforgettable ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - Horseshoes, and the people who shod them, have gone hand-in-hand with the rise and fall of nations since time immemorial. Historical evidence of horseshoes and horse husbandry exists ...

The Breckenridge Heritage Alliance and the Summit Historical Society recently announced that the William W. Boyd Horseshoe Collection will be on display at the Edwin Carter Museum in Breckenridge.

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - Nowadays, many people think of a blacksmith as someone who makes horseshoes and nails them onto the animal’s hooves. Richard Wright, a blacksmith who has been in the trade for ...