blacksmith

With his leg amputated, the blacksmith could no longer work and was feeling desperate.

His father was a blacksmith who received work from a nearby Romany camp and scrap metal yard.

Historical markings along Caliente-Bodfish Road indicate buildings that once existed: barbershop, a blacksmith, the Grand Inn and a livery stable.

Shortly afterward Hugh the blacksmith and his wife and child are being crushed by the crowds desperately pushing against the soldiers standing in the way of their freedom.

Metals get softer when they are heated, which is how blacksmiths can form iron into complex shapes by heating it red hot.