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Blindness, Net Descent and Legend: What Really Happened to Mining Horses
The pit horse occupies a particular corner of French folklore: an animal forced into darkness, rendered blind within months, never to see daylight again. Yet the archives of mining companies and the records of mining engineers tell a more measured story. Systematic blindness amounts to legend, formally documented as such by the Puits Couriot, the […]
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