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different besides construction and I
couldn’t find a good job anywhere.
I got a job at a horse ranch where
I met a guy from Kansas who had
come to intern for the winter, and he
wanted to be a farrier. We became
really good friends.”
The idea had been planted and
Jacob followed the horses. “The
horses are what led me to Parker
County,” Valentic recalled. “My next
job, I got introduced to cutting at a
big ranch in New Mexico.” Then for
about a year and a half he worked at
a ranch in Garner, Texas. His friend
from Kansas kept encouraging him
to pursue a job as a farrier. Before
he started he was warned that it
wouldn’t be easy, but Jacob was not
easily cowed. It did not deter him
when he learned it would take at
least two years to get his business
going. “I’d been all over the United
States and fumbled around. I thought,
‘If I’m going to be broke, I might as
well be working for myself,” Valentic
remembered. “Two years was fine. I
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