Back in the 50s my dad plowed up an old plowshare that was pretty deep in the ground, in a new-ground field that hadn't been cultivated in many, many years. He noted that it had been made by a blacksmith, and that it was very old.
A few years later some historians discovered that Moses Rose, the infamous "coward of the Alamo", was buried about a mile from the old home place where I grew up (this is northwestern Louisiana). After escaping from the Alamo he came to our community and set up shop as a blacksmith, so I've always wondered if he was the one who made that old plowshare.
(For the record, Rose was not so much a coward as a practical realist, and he didn't care for the odds at the Alamo. He was quite possibly the most experienced soldier at the Alamo, having served all over Europe with Napoleon.)
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